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by uulbiy 3506 days ago
Both Firefox[1] and Chrome[2] removed it from their stores. I don't know if we should expect an official announcement, but it seems that neither Mozilla nor Google commented on the issue. Many other sources reported it though[3][4][5].

If you are using WOT in either Firefox or Chromium/Chrome you can just remove it without replacing it with anything. Both browsers cover that for you with Google's Safe Browsing[6][7].

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-Us/firefox/addon/wot-safe-brow...

[2]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wot-web-of-trust-w...

[3]: http://techdows.com/2016/11/web-of-trust-add-on-removed.html (4/11/2016)

[4]: http://www.ghacks.net/2016/11/05/mozilla-and-google-remove-w... (5/11/2016)

[5]: https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/5bgnyr/weboftrust_rem... (6/11/2016)

[6]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Safe_Browsing

[7]: https://www.google.com/tools/firefox/safebrowsing/