What Is theporndude.com, and Is It Safe?

Last Updated on October 29, 2024 by Mathew Diekhake

ThePornDude (theporndude.com) is a porn directory.

ALTERNATIVES

Similar sites to ThePornDude include Daft Sex, HQPorner, and Eporner.

DESCRIPTION

The theporndude.com homepage was split into sections and each section was for a different category of porn site, i.e., porn tube sites, premium porn sites, et cetera. Each porn domain had a hyperlink and when I clicked them I was directed to the domain name, i.e., I clicked on Fapello and landed on fapello.com; however, I did notice an oddity to the link. Instead of it directing me to fapello.com, it directed me to fapello.com/?ref=porndude. These reference links often are set up because they’re networked links. In other words, the links are affiliate links and not listed in the order that theporndude.com would list them if he was properly ranking them himself. I then needed to test how widespread this issue was. They were all linked to theporndude.com as a reference. Notably, theporndude.com is the most popular porn directory site. Is that because of the networked links it has partnerships with that allow it to show in the head section of other sites, or is it because theporndude.com still benefits from a very good click-through rate even though the landing pages are on other domains? It could be that as long as users are clicking on your links, it still gets counted as a good click-through rate regardless of where the user ends up. It can’t be good for time on site though. If users love the idea of landing on other sites and it increases the likelihood of them coming back to your domain, would that be a better search engine signal overall?

HISTORY

As of June 2023, the site theporndude.com has 71.6 million monthly views according to Similar Web. The Wayback Machine estimates theporndude.com was founded on April 14, 2003. The Internet Archive has saved the domain theporndude.com 13,007 times between April 14, 2003 and July 6, 2023.

Is theporndude.com Safe?

Here, I analyzed theporndude.com for malware and malicious content to check if it was legit or a scam:

Sucuri says theporndude.com is a medium security risk.

Sucuri says theporndude.com is a medium security risk because of TLS recommendations (no HTTP to HTTPS redirect).

Security hardening flaws:

• Missing Strict-Transport-Security security header. Affected pages:
  https://theporndude.com/about
  https://theporndude.com/blog/

Unmask Parasites says theporndude.com is suspicious.

Unmask Parasites cites 1 suspicious inline script:

(function(){var js = "window['__CF$cv$params']={r:'81be1167fc2d2c68',t:'MTY5ODI3NDc0NS42NTEwMDA='};_cpo=document.createEl...

VirusTotal says theporndude.com is flagged as spam by StopForumSpam.

URLVoid says theporndude.com passed all blocklist engines.

In conclusion, Sucuri says theporndude.com is a medium security risk because of TLS recommendations (no HTTP to HTTPS redirect). Unmask Parasites says theporndude.com has 1 suspicious inline script. VirusTotal and Sucuri say theporndude.com is flagged as spam by StopForumSpam. OVERALL GRADE: Relatively Safe.

Links and Profiles

Website: theporndude.com