What Is chaturbate.com?
Chaturbate (chaturbate.com) is an adult live cam site. As of December 2022, the site chaturbate.com gets an estimated 475.8 million monthly views, according to SimilarWeb. The Wayback Machine estimates that chaturbate.com was founded on May 21, 2011. The Wayback Machine has crawled chaturbate.com 204,563 times between May 21, 2011, and February 21, 2023. It started getting lots of traffic immediately after its first crawl which suggests it had affiliations with other sites or advertised to grow its traffic. It has had consistent crawl rates each year suggesting similar traffic; however, the crawl rates did increase during 2018 and remained at the elevated level, suggesting it became even more popular then. The crawl rate has been extremely consistent over the last two years.
Chaturbate is owned by Multi Media LLC and competes with BongaCams and LiveJasmin. There are also adult clip sites that use Chaturbate clips such as Cloudbate and XHomeAlone.
Links and Profiles
Website: chaturbate.com
Twitter: @chaturbate
Is chaturbate.com Safe?
I analyzed chaturbate.com for malware and malicious content to check if it was legit or a scam. Here are the results:
I checked the site chaturbate.com on the online malware scanner Sucuri and it returned with no issues. You can see the same here: Sucuri scan for the site chaturbate.com.
See also: How To Stay Safe Online
Sucuri says it ran into a 403 Forbidden site issue; however, it was still able to scan the site chaturbate.com and grade it as a low security risk. The 403 Forbidden was related to two URLs in particular that I have listed below:
https://chaturbate.com:443/auth/login/
https://chaturbate.com:443/tipping/purchase_tokens/?source=TokenSourceUserInfoPanel
These URLs didn’t prevent Sucuri from scanning the rest of the site. Sucuri says the site chaturbate.com has no malware. Moreover, Sucuri didn’t find any injected spam or defacements on the site chaturbate.com. I can also see that no security vendors associated with Sucuri have blacklisted the site chaturbate.com which means they don’t notice any malicious content on the site either.
Some improvements could be made such as solving the several missing security headers listed below:
- Missing security header to prevent
Content Typesniffing. Affected pages:
http://chaturbate.com/ for Google’s UA
https://chaturbate.com:443/404javascript.js/
https://chaturbate.com:443/404testpage4525d2fdc/
https://chaturbate.com:443/auth/login/
https://chaturbate.com:443/auth/login/?next=/tipping/purchase_tokens/?source=TokenSourceUserInfoPanel
https://chaturbate.com:443/terms/- Missing
Content-Security-Policydirective. We recommend to add the following CSP directives (you can use default-src if all values are the same): script-src, object-src, base-uri, frame-src. Affected pages:
http://chaturbate.com/ for Google’s UA
https://chaturbate.com:443/auth/login/
https://chaturbate.com:443/auth/login/?next=/tipping/purchase_tokens/?source=TokenSourceUserInfoPanel
https://chaturbate.com:443/terms/- The ‘unsafe-inline’ keyword in
Content-Security-Policyis not recommended. Consider using unsafe-hashes or nonces instead.
However, these hardening improvements don’t impact the Sucuri grade.
To check this further I ran a parasite scan with Unmask Parasites on the site chaturbate.com and it says the page is clean. You can see the same here: Unmask Parasites scan for the site chaturbate.com.
I also checked the domain chaturbate.com on VirusTotal and no security vendor has flagged the domain as malicious. You can see the same here: VirusTotal scan for the site chaturbate.com.
In conclusion, Sucuri couldn’t scan a couple of the URLs on Chaturbate; however, it was still able to scan the site enough to conclude there is no malware. Moreover, no security vendor associated with Sucuri or VirusTotal has flagged the domain as malicious. Overall, I can see that the site chaturbate.com is a low security risk. Overall grade: Safe.
