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by smokinn 5674 days ago
I'm not so sure this is going to be a beneficial partnership for DDG. It might hurt the quality of the search results.

When I was looking into this sort of market (website trust metrics/scam+spam defense) WoT was the biggest player but their accuracy was absolutely horrible which made it near useless.
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epi0Bauqu 5674 days ago
It is not the default, and currently only used for display purposes when turned on. I've gotten a lot of requests for this setting to be made available.
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MikeCapone 5674 days ago
Hi Gabriel. Would it be possible to have the option to see both the WoT icons and the Favicons? I'm not sold on the WoT yet, but when I try it, I immediately miss the favicons..
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epi0Bauqu 5674 days ago
Yeah, that is something I'm working on, but wanted to get this out in the mean time.
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dreepers10 5674 days ago
Agreed. WOT is terrible with accuracy. As some of the posts mention below, without a trusted review process, WOT is simply unmoderated user-generated content.
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