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    • DongK on Fri 30 Oct 2009
    • 03:39:30 PM UTC

    Traffic overhead because of WOT ?

    Hi,

    I have some serious concerns before laying my hopes in WOT.

    1) The most important one is the traffic it generates. Since in my stupid country we still
    have to pay per traffic, I'm a bit scared that using WOT will generate a serious amount of extra traffic. Could one please explain how much extra traffic we could expect for a seriously addicted internet user like myself please ?

    Is it in the range of 10's of MB's or 100's of MB's per month on average for a daily internet user ?

    2) And secondly, does WOT log all of our websites we visit, I have nothing to hide, but it scares me a little that anything I do or visit on the net is somewhere logged, and perhaps even used for marketing tactics.

    But the first Q is what I'd really like to have some more info about, perhaps some FAQ on the WOT homepage ?

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    • Sami on Fri 30 Oct 2009
    • 04:28:00 PM UTC

    Re: Traffic overhead because of WOT ?

    1) I don't know how seriously addicted you are, but the bandwidth required to request reputations is negligible compared to the site you are loading. On average, requests return less than 1 kB of data and the add-on caches the information for 30 minutes to keep the number of requests to a minimum. I'd say even an active web user probably won't download more than a few megabytes of reputations per month.

    2) See the privacy policy for details. Summary: all requests the add-on makes to our servers are logged and stored temporarily for a month. We don't share the information with anyone and it's certainly not used for marketing.
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    • DongK on Fri 30 Oct 2009
    • 05:33:31 PM UTC

    Thanks a lot Sami, that

    Thanks a lot Sami,

    that solved my 2 questions.

    I'll add the Firefox add-on. Seems like there was a newer version today, but it's still not on the add-on page from mozilla nor in the auto-update feature from FF.