Visiting porn sites might not be as dangerous as visiting a piracy site, but still may have some risks. I don’t want to destroy your picture of a perfect world, but most websites are created for one thing: money. And to get money, people might do some shady shit.
Recently, the guy who was running Movie2k.to, gave his stash of Bitcoins to authorities – 29.5 million dollars for a few years of operating his website. And the majority of this money was coming from fraudulent registrations.
So there is a lot of money to make for such people – who rely on people like you and me – To be dumb enough to do dumb things. To avoid paying for stuff you don’t want, check out our recommendations on how to spot bad porn sites.
The Popularity Of Porn Sites Is Important
First of all, the more popular a porn site is, the more you are safe. Though, this is only for really big sites like Brazzers, Reality Kings, but also free porn sites like Pornhub or PornHD. Such sites cannot afford bad publicity and therefore you are *mostly* safe. Why you may ask? Even Pornhub had an incident with their back-then ad-platform, where a customer was able to inject bad Javascript code for their advertisement. The result? This ad was online for just 20 minutes but reached thousands of users and the damage was done…
Less Popular Pay Sites
Less popular porn sites also want to make money and while 98% of all paysites might be safe as well, their business model may include cross-sales and automatically recurring subscriptions – so watch out! If you are buying a membership for a site and there is a lot of fine prints, read it carefully and
Pro-Tip: I even suggest to hit CTRL + F and search for “$”, “payment”, “subscription”, “cancel” to check the most important parts and to not overlook hidden costs.
Hint from our site: We check for such methods within our reviews and if a site really tries to rip you off, we write that down there!)
Antivirus and Useful Addons
Actually, it is bad that I still have to mention that in 2020, but DON’T YOU EVER SURF THE WEB WITHOUT AN ANTIVIRUS (…and Malwarebytes).
People are bad, they build websites solely for the purpose to get your money or to infect your notebook with malware, so please never ever surf the internet without an up-to-date antivirus. Furthermore, I recommend Malwarebytes, that looks specifically for malware with daily updates.
Also, an ad-blocker is advised if you are surfing to free porn sites that we don’t have on our list. We pick those without excessive ads, but if you are wild and free and want to explore the web on your own, install one! Now!
You should also check out our own category with a list of software you might want to consider when watching porn on the web.
Common Sense
Last, but not least, but the most important factor…
I know it is hard to think when you are horny, but if someone sounds too good to be true and they “just need your credit card for age verification” -dump it! In mostly all cases this is just a rip-off.
Pro-Tip: Get yourself a prepaid card without just $20 on it to pay your porn, so they can never charge you more than that.
Safe Porn Sites – Summed up
To sum things up on how to detect safe porn sites and how to avoid unnecessary costs:
- You should prefer popular sites
- Use an up-to-date anti-virus and malware blocker on free sites
- Use a prepaid credit-card for less popular pay sites
- Use your common sense (even if it is hard when horny)