Is Web of Trust, MyWOT/WOT: Website Reputation Rating safe?
Web of Trust sends every URL you visit, Google Search results, and ad intelligence to secure.mywot.com on each page navigation.
On every tab navigation, the extension collects the current and previous page URLs, referrer, transition type, and a persistent user GUID, then transmits them to secure.mywot.com. A remotely fetched configuration enables the extension's servers to instruct targeted DOM data extraction from specific pages, with collected data bundled into subsequent tracking requests. Additionally, Google Search organic results and advertisements — including advertiser URLs, image data, and ad positions — are extracted from pages and forwarded to the same endpoint.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
Who publishes itWOT Services - no other listings under this identity, 10 shared hostnames
WOT Services - no other listings under this identity, 10 shared hostnames
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Shared hosts - 10 hostnames
Hostnames hardcoded in this extension that few other listings call. That can mean one operator behind both, and it can equally mean a small shared vendor, so it is context rather than a conclusion. Hosts that many listings call are left out: they are services, not connections.
AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 20220920.0wot. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Read and change your data on www.mywot.com
http://www.mywot.com/*
Read and change your data on api.mywot.com
http://api.mywot.com/* and 1 more
Read and change your data on every site you visit
http://*/*
Read and change your data on every secure site you visit
https://*/*
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
See every page you navigate to, as you navigate to it
webNavigation
Watch every request your browser makes
webRequest
Watch, block and rewrite every request your browser makes
webRequestBlocking
Store data in your browser
storage
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Web of Trust, MyWOT/WOT: Website Reputation Rating contacting. Sending data somewhere is not a finding on its own - an extension that syncs your settings has to talk to its own server - but it is where your data can go, and who else it goes to.
- secure.mywot.com
Web of Trust, MyWOT/WOT: Website Reputation Rating sends data to secure.mywot.com. One other extension we have analyzed sends data here.