What Is youtube.com, and Is It Safe?

Last Updated on October 20, 2024 by Mathew Diekhake

YouTube (youtube.com) is a streaming and online TV site. YouTube was founded by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim before being sold to Google (now Alphabet) on October 9, 2006 for $1.65 billion.

ALTERNATIVES

Similar sites to YouTube include IMDB, Netflix, Hulu, Facebook, Vimeo, Veoh, Blip TV, and VideoSift.

HISTORY

As of August 2023, youtube.com has 33.9 billion monthly views, according to Similar Web. The Wayback Machine estimates youtube.com was founded on April 28, 2005. The Internet Archive has saved youtube.com 16,547,251 times between April 28, 2005 and September 17, 2023. Wayback Machine data shows youtube.com was a popular site to save as soon as it was founded, which is what led to its sale to Google only a year later. The number of times youtube.com is saved by the Wayback Machine continues to grow each year; it has seen considerable growth so far during 2023,

Is youtube.com Safe?

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

I checked youtube.com on Sucuri, and it returned with no issues.

Security hardening flaws:

• Missing security header for ClickJacking Protection. Affected pages:
  https://about.youtube/
  https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
  https://www.youtube.com/howyoutubeworks/policies/copyright/
  https://www.youtube.com/t/contact_us
  https://www.youtube.com/t/terms
• Missing Strict-Transport-Security security header. Affected pages:
  https://about.youtube/
  https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
  https://www.youtube.com/howyoutubeworks/policies/copyright/

I then checked youtube.com on Unmask Parasites, and it is clean.

I also checked youtube.com on VirusTotal, and it is clean.

Further, youtube.com passed all blocklist engines on URLVoid.

In conclusion, youtube.com is safe. But it has security header issues. OVERALL GRADE: Safe.

Links and Profiles

Website: youtube.com