Recently both WOT and Nvidia were in the news for the way their software was collecting and sending back data from their users.
WOT was in the news due to a report from a German TV channel. The report claimed that WOT collects and sells data about your browsing habits, and then that collected data can be tracked back to specific users.
After reviewing the data, Mozilla (the creators of Firefox) removed the WOT plug-in from their add-ons directory. We at GlassWire were saddened by this news because we found WOT to be a useful resource for looking up websites to see if they were safe or not.
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https://blog.glasswire.com/2016/11/16/use-glasswire-to-prevent-apps-from-spying-on-you