Over the last few days, we’ve had a bunch of readers email us complaining that WOT (Web of Trust) is rating the How-To Geek Newsletter with a warning message. But it’s a lie! And we’ve resolved it…
What Are You Talking About?
The Web of Trust (WOT) add-on for Firefox and IE checks links on the current page and warns you when you are about to head towards something suspicious—and unfortunately it was incorrectly tagging the links in the How-To Geek Newsletter.
But It Wasn’t Us!
If you actually check the How-To Geek scorecard page over on Web of Trust, you’ll see that we’ve got wonderful green ratings, and even a congratulations… so where’s the confusion?
The Problem
The issue here is that we use a company named Aweber to handle sending out the daily emails—since there are 18,000+ subscribers getting our articles in their inbox every day, our server couldn’t handle that load. So we outsource it.
And that’s where the problem lies…
