Last Updated on December 10, 2024 by Mathew Diekhake
kick.com is a streaming and online TV platform. kick.com is similar to twitch.tv where you can watch gamers who stream to their audiences. One of the streamers who signed a deal with kick.com was chess grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura.
ALTERNATIVES
Similar sites include pixeldrain.com, tiktok.com, instagram.com, openai.com, notion.so, reddit.com, and twitch.tv.
DESCRIPTION
When I analyzed kick.com, there was an example of a live stream available above the fold. It looked like a lady setting up her disks for a DJ set. It then automatically slid to the second example stream, this time of a gamer playing a first-person shooter game. I noticed that there were three example streams on the slider that it would automatically scroll through, and each of them was of a streamer doing something different. I opened the DJ’s stream, and in her room, I could hear the music she was creating as the webcam bounced up and down along with her music. Judging by the chat, she was quite a popular DJ. The default stream size was large but still allowed plenty of space for internal links and features to help increase the time on site metric. The chat was live and interactive, which is one of the features to help increase time on the site. To the left of the stream was a Recommended section which were internal links to other streamers who were popular at the time. 11/22/2024
HISTORY
As of October 2024, kick.com has an estimated 107.2 million monthly views. Kick.com was founded on January 2, 1997. The Internet Archive saved kick.com 1,422 times between January 2, 1997 and November 22, 2024.
Is kick.com Safe?
Here, I analyzed kick.com for malware and malicious content to check if it was legit or a scam:
I checked kick.com on Sucuri, and it returned as a medium security risk.
Sucuri says its scan failed on http://kick.com/ due to a 403 Forbidden error which means that the owner of kick.com is choosing to block scans from running.
I then ran a parasite scan with Unmask Parasites on kick.com, and it is suspicious.
Unmask Parasites cites 1 suspicious inline script:
(function(){window._cf_chl_opt={cvId: '3',cZone: "kick.com",cType: 'managed',cRay: '8e681aa23c9be233',cH: 'kCC2RjpHUjtS_U...
I also checked kick.com on VirusTotal, and it is clean.
Further, kick.com passed all blocklist engines on URLVoid.
In conclusion, we graded kick.com as relatively safe. I think kick.com is choosing to block Sucuri from scanning. Unmask Parasites also cites a suspicious script that has a 403 Forbidden status on it also. That said, I know kick.com quite well and I doubt it’s a malicious site. OVERALL GRADE: Relatively Safe.
Links and Profiles
Website: kick.com
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