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Staying safe on free adult sites

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The big, established tube sites are reasonably safe to browse. The trouble usually starts on copycat sites, leak sites and anything that promises paid content for free. These are funded by aggressive pop-ups and redirects, and some exist mainly to trick visitors. A few simple rules avoid nearly all of it.

The tricks to recognise

• Fake play and download buttons. Large buttons over or beside the video that open a new tab instead of playing. The real player control is usually smaller and inside the video frame.
• Scareware. A page or pop-up claiming your phone is infected, your battery is damaged or your device has been "hacked", often with a countdown and an alarm sound. It is never genuine. No website can scan your device.
• "Install this to watch." Prompts to install a codec, player, update or app before a video will play. Modern browsers play video without extra software. This is the most common way malware arrives.
• Fake prize and survey pages. Messages saying you have won a phone or gift card, or must complete a survey to continue.
• Fake age or "are you human" checks that ask you to allow notifications or enter card details. Genuine age checks never ask you to allow notifications.
• Calendar and profile tricks on phones: prompts to add a calendar subscription or install a configuration profile. Both can flood your device with spam.

Notification prompts

Many sites ask to send you notifications. Some are useful, many are not, and a few use them to send alarming fake warnings later. Only allow notifications from sites you know and want to hear from. You can remove permissions at any time in your browser's site settings (on Android in Chrome under Settings, Site settings, Notifications; on iPhone, web notifications appear in the Settings app under Notifications).

Simple rules

1. Stick to well-known sites and type their address directly or use a bookmark, rather than clicking search results for "free" versions of paid content.
2. Never install anything a site tells you that you need to watch a video.
3. Close unexpected tabs without clicking anything inside them. On a phone, close the tab from the tab overview.
4. Never enter card details on a page you reached through a pop-up or redirect.
5. Keep your browser and operating system updated so known security holes are closed.

If you clicked something

• Close the tab and clear the browser's recent history and site data.
• Uninstall anything you installed, and on a computer run your operating system's built-in security scan (such as Microsoft Defender on Windows).
• Remove notification permissions you do not recognise.
• On iPhone, remove unknown calendar subscriptions and configuration profiles in Settings.
• If you entered card details, contact your bank and ask to block the card. If you entered a password, change it everywhere you use it.
• Do not pay anyone who contacts you claiming they recorded you through your camera. These "sextortion" e-mails are sent in bulk and are almost always bluffs. Delete them.

Sites that host stolen content

Leak sites, re-upload channels and file-sharing links for paid content are the riskiest corner of the adult web for malware, and they hurt the performers whose work is copied. See spotting fake creator pages and leak scams and ethical viewing.

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