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Ultimate Flag extension for Google Chrome shows a site's safety, traffic, and location info
After you install the extension, you'll see a flag icon in your Chrome Omnibar which tells you where a site is hosted. A WOT rating is also displayed (yahoo! Engadget comes up green...). Clicking the icon brings up even more details, including geolocation info (if available), Google PageRank, Alexa rank, and a full breakdown from WebOfTrust.
UCF also provides a button to copy the site's domain name and IP address to the clipboard for easy re-use anywhere you want to paste it.
It's a handy little extension, both to satisfy your curiosity about sites and make sure that curiosity doesn't get you into trouble...
In case you wondered -- I did enlarge the pop-up display to show detail. It won't be nearly that huge in your Chrome window.
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Subscribe to commentsnospamNov 27th 2010 12:32PM
Yahoo! Engadget?? It's AOL Engadget...
Lee MathewsApr 10th 2010 2:02PM
*eyeroll*
bizoppApr 15th 2010 3:38AM
While I did start using WOT a couple months ago I believed this was a great way to stay protected and warned of dangerous sites .
I also made a positive review on my site and was quickly thanked by a post from a WOT employee.
While I used the plugin I soon began to see pop-ups on Known good sites.
The pop ups are actually a pain because they interupt your online experience .
I started to notice a trend and it was always a handful of commentors that were making the posts .
There was one user that I noticed that labeling a lot of sites with identity theft and credit card fraud.
I use a well known autoresponder service and noticed his same comment warning of identity theft and credit card fraud.
When I green posted the site I made a comment that this member must hate marketers.
Well the next day both of my websites sites and my 2 twitter accounts were marked displayed the rating in = Identity theft / Credit card abuse
SCAM / MLM "get rich quick" | "work from home" | "affiliate marketing".
I might point out if a website is actively promoting a affiliate website that it is red labelled and the system ranks you as Identity theft / Credit card abuse since when is affiliate sites illegal.
SCAM / MLM "get rich quick" | "work from home" | "affiliate marketing".I would state that is a pretty harsh rating and misleading.
The reason I got this rating is because I have a link to a CNET download button that allows internet users to download a free "Social site Usage guide" in exchange for joining my networking list. This download is a PDF with how to use social sites like twitter face book linked in etc.
CNET service scrutinizes and checks out the providers to ensure safety for all the users before the post is allowed. They only allow safe downloads.
When I went to the WOT forum this member had a thread up about my product because I used a list builder software called Boomerang to promote signing up to my network.
I posted my complaint about these tactics I was attacked for 36 hours from a group of their WOT higher profile "Vigilantes" all making assumptions and taking my comments out of fact and content to try to prove the comments accurate.. I have never seen an online Kangaroo court like that.
But just a point the commenter from WOT not only took my site but took 29 links from my site and labelled those sites with the same rating because I was associated with them. So if I had visited your site and If you had a site I liked and gave a backlink you would get the bad rating because I mentioned it. Pray you don't get a backlink from a site these vigilanties assume or speculate is bad.
This particular user comptets for awards for site postings they get yearly awards
This member is scambuster of the year 2009 he has been a member since 2008 and has rated Ratings: 501,493 *, Posts: 527,044
When you look through his list the majority make bad statements or ratings. Very few good ratings. And I am sure if my case is any example based on personal and assumptive reasons.
In their 10 posters Poster these are the numbers they have posted on.
37,819
54,468
51,126
48,549
45,975
45,182
41,743
40,923
39,774
39,234
37,819
Number of rated sites: 26,936,760
New this month: 464,545
Number of dangerous sites: 3,045,247
Number of comments: 6,278,456
Number of dangerous sites: 3,045,247
Number of comments: 6,278,456
I will tell you straight up I am promoting networking and ethical ways to promote your products,services and information in a Ethical and non invasive way(no Spam) my list is private it is not sold or given out.
I use Paypal as a payment gateway but don't sell much anyway.
But because I give away a PDF and have an email list I am deemed a criminal which is wrong.
But to be labelled = Identity theft / Credit card abuse is outrageous.
In fact on this site downloadsquad the fact that you are requiring people to submit an email and name to post would be deemed “Indetity theft and you would get the comment “Identity theft / Credit card abuse/SCAM / MLM "get rich quick" | "work from home" | "affiliate marketing".
When I tried to suggested that their system should not include all these categories together then the assumptions and accusations really began to fly.
Using an autoresponder like Awebber is passing personal information they would consider that “identity theft” because it is stored on a third party site.
The bottom line is that the WOT network is to uncontrolled is based generally on feelings,malice,assumption ,little facts in the comment system and as result the results and ratings received are flawed and damaging to the reputation of innocent and leaves them very misleading.
If you want to support WOT it is out of my control but I am going to label WOT as internet vigilantism and innocent people will be harmed.