from its store, because it collects, records, analyzes and sells user-related data to third-parties
Mozilla removes browser extension “Web of Trust”
John Anderson
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heise.de
support.mozilla.org
twitter.com
Owen Robinson
Seriously? And here to think I trusted them all along
Elijah Phillips
mozilla confirmed goat
David Peterson
fug i have that installed on my browsers
Caleb Sullivan
only imbeciles used extensions like wot
Jaxon King
>TRUSTING OPEN SORES SOFTWARE
Carson Rogers
Source in German heise.de
NO ENGLISH LANGUAGE PUBLICATION HAS WRITTEN ABOUT THIS YET
IT HAS 870.000 USERS
Jaxson Reed
A team of journalists made a dummy corporation and bought lots of data about 3 million users. The data also contained intimate details of Journalists and high-ranking german politicians. The browser plugin "Web of Trust" was identified as one of the sources of said data, which was supposed to protect from illegal data collection and fraud.
source: Rough translation of a passage from the article posted above.
If you have any questions about the article feel free to ask, altough i won't translate it fully.
it doesn't seem to be open source
besides, this kind of shit is much easier to conceal in proprietary software
Xavier Clark
Selling malware as security is one the magician oldest tricks. Same applies to "free" VPN services, or fake anti virus solutions.
>Open sores will protect me against somebody mishandling my data on a server I have no control over
Gee wizz lad you probablt use Google CHromium by google with free open sored dns service.
Andrew Barnes
>web of trust
>its not trust worthy
The irony
Nathan Flores
google chrome is well known as highly questionable, and it doesn't really try to hide that either considering you can fucking make an account or whatever that crap is. Open source is by no means an insurance against spionage it just makes it harder to hide.
Carson Bennett
Or makes it easier to trick the users with false feeling of security. When you create spyware you rarely put shit in the client side software. You spy on server side which is by no means prevented by open source.
Evan Martin
how did you come up with that zinger?
Caleb Edwards
but you can see what the client sends and why, web of trust has no business sending heaps of user data, especially not unanonymized
Carson Cox
It sends all url you visit or are about to visit for "verification". This is more then enough to effectively spy on you.
Lucas Taylor
web of trust or chrome?
Carson Howard
So, the same thing that Firefox does with Google?
support.mozilla.org
Aaron Perry
Mozilla has a store?
Tyler Garcia
this tbqh
Cameron Flores
lol
people on Sup Forums falling for these extensions
im not even surprised
Daniel Morgan
I stare at myself in a big mirror that's in my living room until a quality post dawns on me
Brayden Murphy
Just use noscript you dipshit, know nothing millennials
Jaxson Bell
I always disable all that since uMatrix already has blocklists that work well
Andrew Ramirez
Disappointed, but not surprised. If you're not paying for the product, you are the product. Actually, it was my only reason for sticking with Mozilla; go Chrome? Then again, won't make much difference.
Jacob Cook
>mfw noscript probably collects and sells user data too
Owen Harris
THIS IS WHAT YOU GET FOR TRUSTING OPEN SORES
Christopher Young
Firstly Mozilla don't have any store as Chrome, it's free.
Secondly, same thing happens on Chromium browsers etc...
Adam Jackson
but you can read(and modify) the source code of the extension anytime you want.
David Wood
That addon is absolute shit, especially after they simplified their model to be mostly about child safety.
I bet the only people who still use it anymore are the ones who downloaded it years ago and simply never bothered uninstalling.
Cooper Powell
people actually used that shit?
Daniel Carter
lot of anons here even use ghostery, noscript, adblock plus and other botnets like wot
Ayden Cook
>falling for snake oil
Sup Forums truly is the home of the Sup Forumsoyim
Landon Gray
are you new or something, i see some retard using trash like abp, disconnect or ghostery everyday on Sup Forums not to mention the Cúck Cúck Go botnet
Levi Ward
>original creators left in 2014
>became TOW Software sometime last year
>ceases operations in June of this year
Hudson Bailey
U can stil benefit from that service w/out that plugin.
Duckduck has a setting option which enables WOT-ratings in the returned results.
personally I've ditched it two years ago while installing [spoiler]uMatrix[/spoiler].
Cooper Watson
>Just use noscript you dipshit, know nothing millennials
You mean just use uMatrix you dipshit, know-nothing Sup Forumstard.
Dylan James
>Jew Jew Go
>switching from one botnet to another
Austin Ortiz
Good to know, i hate addons anyway.
Xavier Morales
>Don't have any store as chrome, it's free
god have the users here really become this dumb?
Colton Ramirez
Glad I never used it then. Of course, I don't see the point of using a reputation service when you can just practice some common sense.
Bentley Bell
>tfw i have been using it for 2+ years
JUST
Joseph Jones
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