How to rate sites
- Use your mouse to move the user rating symbol
- By moving the user rating symbol you indicate what you think of the site
- Your rating will be saved when you close the rating window or click outside it
Trustworthiness:
Do you trust this website? Is it safe to use? Does it deliver what it promises?
A poor rating may indicate identity theft potential, Internet scams, credit card fraud, phishing, lottery scams, viruses, adware, or spyware.
An unsatisfactory rating indicates that the site may contain annoying advertisements, excessive pop-ups, or content that makes your browser crash.
Vendor reliability:
Is the site safe for buying and selling, or for business transactions in general?
A poor rating indicates possible fraud or a bad shopping experience.
Privacy:
Can you trust the site owner, safely supply your e-mail address, and download files?
A poor rating indicates spam, adware, or spyware.
Child safety:
Does the site contain age-inappropriate material (content that is sexually oriented, hateful, or violent in nature) or encourage activities that are dangerous or illegal?
Confidence
indicates the amount of supporting evidence.
Scorecard
shows rating details with comments from users and trusted sources. You may also leave your own comment.
Guide and settings
advise on using and customizing the system.
New version
appears when it is time to update the software.
When rating websites, please bear the following in mind
- By rating websites you can share your knowledge with the community and help your fellow users
- Rate only those sites that you know
- If you feel that a WOT rating for a site is incorrect, please provide your own rating
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If you use a site that does not have enough evidence for calculating a rating - indicated by the symbol
- please supply a rating
Ratings
Select the rating components you want to use:
Select a component
- to get warnings based on it
- to view it in the rating window and search results
- to give your own rating
We recommend that you select vendor reliability and privacy in order to get warnings based on these. If you are interested in protecting children, please select child safety too.
Sample view of the rating window
Warnings
Select the level of protection:
All warnings are disabled.
A rating of "very poor" for any component will trigger a warning.
A "poor" or "very poor" rating in any area will trigger a warning.
A rating of "unsatisfactory," "poor," or "very poor" for any component will trigger a warning.
You can set the warning threshold for each component individually and also set the system to block access to the site instead of merely giving a warning.
Note: Custom protection level is currently disabled. These options are available only to registered WOT members.
Customize your level of protection:
Behavior:
Trustworthiness:
Warning
Blocking
Vendor reliability:
Warning
Blocking
Privacy:
Warning
Blocking
Child safety:
Warning
Blocking
Searching
When you search or browse the selected sites, the add-on shows a rating symbol next to links.
Select your preference:
Select your preference:
Select when ratings are shown:
Optimized:
The system will primarily show the rating for any component that triggers a warning under your chosen settings. Otherwise the rating for trustworthiness will be displayed.
Lowest rating:
The system will show the lowest rating, no matter the rating component.
Trustworthiness:
The first rating component listed (trustworthiness) will always be displayed.
Pop-up
Sample view of search results
Advanced
The following options let you control some advanced add-on features.
We recommend that you use the systemΓÇÖs default settings.
We recommend that you use the systemΓÇÖs default settings.
Ignore the following sites:
(Example: localhost, .example.com, 127.0.0.)
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