[smittywerben]

I loved MyWot! I was one of the earlier users around ~2007 until 2009 or so. It helped teach intuition on sketchy, dangerous, and bloated web pages. The community was small and plenty of sites were unrated, though a surprising number still had ratings (and I was fairly active myself).

To answer your question, privacy addons started selling our data. I remember Adblock Plus added "Acceptable Ads" around 2012. MyWot redesigned in 2013. Times were changing. Surely enough in 2016 they were found selling sensitive user data. It's not like this was a surprise, since it's the reason I left years ago.

These days, I'd rather reduce my browser dependency. I hope the community finds a way to filter the 1% of useful data on the internet into like a .txt file, or something that doesn't make me solve puzzles to grep.