DrGravitas Posted December 3, 2016 Share Posted December 3, 2016 OK this actually changed a fair bit ago, but I was reminded of it again and how it irritated me. I use No Script on Firefox and one of its delightful features is that you can middle-click any of the scripts it tells you its blocking and it will bring up a Security and Privacy Info page on the script. Generally unneeded, it is nevertheless very useful when a site can't function without certain scripts and you have to pick through to see which are functional and which are trackers or ad-related, or even down-right malicious. The page is just a hub with links to other services that have evaluated the script or the site it comes from and tells you about them. Most of them are super basic and not very helpful. The go-to page for me on that info hub was always the My WOT page. My WOT (Web of Trust) has/had a robust community of skeptical and technically apt users that provided comments and ratings on these scripts/pages that are very informative and aggregates them in convenient score graphs making it easy to tell at a quick glance whether one should be suspicious of the script or not. While it didn't have perfect 100% coverage, it was great for finding the worst of the big privacy-violating scripts or telling when something was just collecting metrics. Not long ago, however, No Script ceased including My WOT on their hub page! I miss my easy link to it! It was replaced with some other fairly bland and uninformative site that thankfully happens also contain links to several other services including My WOT. So yeah, tl;dr my rant is that I now have to click through a single extra page to learn whether a script is worth enabling 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WileyWarWeasel Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 @DrGravitas Which link do you follow on the hub page to eventually get to My WOT? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrGravitas Posted December 4, 2016 Author Share Posted December 4, 2016 36 minutes ago, WileyWarWeasel said: @DrGravitas Which link do you follow on the hub page to eventually get to My WOT? URLVoid Scan, last one on the list. My WOT is usually first listed under "Safety Scan Report" on that URLVoid page. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WileyWarWeasel Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 3 hours ago, DrGravitas said: URLVoid Scan, last one on the list. My WOT is usually first listed under "Safety Scan Report" on that URLVoid page. Thanks! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArielMT Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 I never knew that. I just have WOT install separately. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArielMT Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 Speaking of Web of Trust... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrGravitas Posted December 7, 2016 Author Share Posted December 7, 2016 24 minutes ago, ArielMT said: Speaking of Web of Trust... D8 Yeeaah, stuff like this is why I'm leery of a lot of add-ons, even from groups like WOT. You'd think thry'd be able to establish sufficient revenue without turning to this sort of thing. Let alone cognizant of what would happen to them should they fail to take every precaution with the data, given their userbase. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Socketosis Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 3 hours ago, DrGravitas said: D8 Yeeaah, stuff like this is why I'm leery of a lot of add-ons, even from groups like WOT. This is why I try to run a minimal of any add-ons. I currently only have uBlock Origin running. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrGravitas Posted December 7, 2016 Author Share Posted December 7, 2016 35 minutes ago, Socketosis said: This is why I try to run a minimal of any add-ons. I currently only have uBlock Origin running. I could probably cut back a bit. I have ghostery, uBlock, NoScript, FoxyProxy (though I haven't used that in ages), that downloader-I-forget-the-name-of-for-embedded-vids, and a host of ones fixing Mozilla's idiotic design choices. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Socketosis Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 22 minutes ago, DrGravitas said: FoxyProxy Such a furry. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feelwell Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 1 hour ago, DrGravitas said: I could probably cut back a bit. I have ghostery, uBlock, NoScript, FoxyProxy (though I haven't used that in ages), that downloader-I-forget-the-name-of-for-embedded-vids, and a host of ones fixing Mozilla's idiotic design choices. Tbh FoxyProxy sounds like something to hide your chats with old ladies. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArielMT Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 And after not much discussion since the revelation, Mozilla has decided to go ahead and start blocking existing Web of Trust installations effective today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Socketosis Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 4 hours ago, ArielMT said: And after not much discussion since the revelation, Mozilla has decided to go ahead and start blocking existing Web of Trust installations effective today. That took a while... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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