Best cam sites – updated list of the most popular, best sites for cam girls today sorted by real data

 

1. What this article is about
2. Best cam sites reviews purpose – true reviews or (paid) advertisements?
3. Different aspects by which a cam site quality can be defined as the best one
4. How to define the popularity of a cam site?
5. Best cam sites according to Google (top search results)
6. Breakdown and analysis of Google top search results for the queries “best cam sites” and “best sites for cam girls”
7. Actual accurate cam sites metrics and stats (February 2023 update added)
8. Don’t be fooled anymore – learn how to check cam sites stats on your own
9. Conclusion and final words

 

1.What this article is about

How many times have you tried to find out what are the best cam sites today? How much time have you spent looking for the answer only to end up being even more confused? Question seems straight and it is very clear but the answer? Anyone who has ever performed a google search to find the correct and precise answer to this simple question knows very well how hard it is. Results and content they are linking to are confusing, often contradictory. In some of them some cam sites are at the top while in some others they are not. At the same time each of those top ranked links and articles look serious and trustful but are they?

Whether you are a cam girl or you are thinking about starting a cam girl job this article is going to give you the precise answer. And not only that! You will never again end up lost in the information jungle. It’s because we are going to teach you how to understand the differences and rank cam sites on your own. You won’t let others confuse and make a fool of you anymore. It’s because you will know how to search and discover facts by yourself!

Before we start, be advised that this is NOT going to be just another 5 or 10 minute read article. There are going to be photos, tables, numbers, comparisons and detailed analysis. We are going to explain to you different concepts and approaches to cam site reviews. Furthermore, we are going to present you with real cam sites stats. On top of that, we will show you how amateur and unprofessional some of the best ranked articles that cover this topic actually are. But, one thing at a time. Let’s go step by step.

 

2.Best cam sites reviews purpose – true reviews or (paid) advertisements?

Have you ever asked yourself what the purpose of posted cam sites reviews really is? Have you ever asked yourself why there are so many posted best cam site reviews in the first place? What do you think? Is their purpose to help cam girls and other users who are interested in webcamming or is the purpose something else? We are about to unwrap this riddle for you so you understand what happens “behind the curtain”.

There are not many reasons why best cam sites reviews (and general reviews) have been written and published. In general, there are 3 main reasons. That would be:

• providing real, accurate information for users and public use
• acquiring a website ranking improvement
• advertising purpose aiming to bring profit to publisher (directly or indirectly)

First and second reasons above are directly related to each other and usually they are wrapped together. First reason directly pulls the second. If reviews represent value to the public they will be shared as well. That will bring more traffic to the website they are published at, making it more popular. As such, being correct and relevant, reviews represent true value to users.

Advertising purpose

Advertising purpose on the other hand, are articles (reviews) published with the only intent of making profit, directly or indirectly. Usually such reviews are masked with content that pretends to look reliable and serious. Often, such review titles contain date, month or year to look more fresh and accurate. Often, you can not notice anything wrong with such reviews. Techniques of bringing profit to review authors (publishers) go even beyond your imagination. Authors tend to build site and whole blog networks in order to get as much publicity as possible and “confirm” each other’s reviews. They look different but there is one common thing for them. Such review articles and websites favor one or more websites they have use of, while presenting the competition worse than it actually is.

 

How to understand the true nature of published articles and reviews

True nature of best cam sites reviews and reviews in general can be disclosed only if you scratch a bit under the surface. For that you need to have little knowledge about affiliate marketing and SEO (search engine optimisation). And of course, you need to have good knowledge of the topic you are interested in so you can recognize the true value of published reviews. But, before going “under the surface” there is another necessary factor we want you to learn about.

 

3.Different aspects and factors by which a cam site quality can be defined as the best one

How do you evaluate the quality of a cam site? What are the things and facts that qualify a cam site to be the best one in the first place? Are the same cam sites equally good for camgirls and cam site visitors or are there differences?

Beside the purpose of the best cam site reviews articles, there are two more reasons that makes searching for the best cam site even more complicated. First reason is a huge difference in the perspective you are evaluating cam site quality from. Second reason is the significant number of different factors (metrics) a cam site quality is measured in. Let’s shortly introduce you to both.

There are 3 most common perspectives from which a cam site quality can be evaluated:

• As a cam site user
• As a cam girl
• As affiliate marketer or business owner

 

Different perspectives a cam site can be analyzed from

Only by looking at the list above it is clear these 3 groups do not have the same needs and interests. Cam site use intent is different for each group. Because of that, they are interested in different elements and characteristics of a cam site.

Cam site user’s main focus is on prices while the number of camgirls and video stream quality comes second. More less those are factors a cam site user is interested in the most.

Camgirls are interested in a whole range of other factors than those mentioned above. The most important factor that defines the best cam site for camgirls is cam site popularity. Obviously, the more popular cam site is, it is logical to assume that more money can be earned. Directly related to it comes the expectation of how much money a cam girl thinks she can earn working for a cam site. Next to those factors come cam site type (is it freemium or premium) and percentage of money cam site takes from their cam girl earnings. After those come models of payment, payment dynamics, cam site rules, user interface, support quality and dedication. Some more defining factors are cam site design, reward programs and others. As you can see none of these factors cam site users (visitors) are interested in at all.

Affiliate marketers and business owners sum up those two and look at how to make profit in general. If possible, from both sides.

In this analysis, we are looking for the best cam sites for camgirls only. As we have just mentioned above, there are a lot of factors that define cam site quality from the camgirls perspective. Among them all, within this article we are focusing only on the most important factor to them – cam site popularity.

 

4.How to define the popularity of a cam site?

Defining the popularity of a cam site is the same as defining the popularity of just any other website. There are 3 main factors that generally define website popularity and those are:

• traffic volume,
• number of opened pages per visit,
• average user visit duration.

Knowing these metrics, it is easy for anyone to define the website popularity of any website on its own. The only challenge you have is to find a website (service) that tracks Internet websites’ statistics. Once you find such a website it is easy to make a quick analysis and find the most popular websites in any category you are interested in. Of course, we have done that instead of you. You will find a link to the website we had used for this analysis within the article below.

Now that you know how to define the popularity of websites let’s see how Google works. How its search engine actually works and how search results (in our case reviews and articles) are ranked.

 

5.Best cam sites – Google top search results

So, how is Google ranking articles and displaying search results to users? How do these “best” reviews reach Google top search result page? Explanation in detail would take enormous amounts of information and time. Besides, you don’t need to know all that. That’s why we are going to maximally simplify the explanation by breaking it down to two highest involved factors.

Any kind of content published online is being deeply analyzed by Google. You would be surprised if you knew how many elements Google takes into consideration when analyzing published articles. Some say over 200 different parameters are involved in that process but no one knows exactly how many. Also, that number goes up with every Google algorithm update. It is because Google is doing its best to provide users with the most accurate and reliable search results. That’s why site owners and blog authors are doing their best to adapt content they publish toward Google quality standards. Below we are introducing to you two factors that have the biggest influence on Google content ranking.

 

Content length

Content length is one of the aspects that has a huge impact on how Google evaluates the quality of an article. That’s why the majority of best cam sites reviews Google return as a top search result are long articles. However, Google is not (yet) smart enough to understand if article content itself is correct or not. No matter how many other aspects Google takes into account if compared articles are mostly similar in length Google will show both as relevant. Problem is that Google is not able to decide which content is better or more reliable. That’s why often the contents of top ranked results are different from each other. End result is that a user who made a Google search will end up confused even more than before doing the search in the first place.

 

Backlinks

Second equally important aspect that Google takes into consideration is how many “backlinks” an article has. For those of you who don’t know what backlinks are here is a quick explanation. Backlink is nothing else than a link posted anywhere online that is linking the article or any other type of content. For example, when you share a Youtube video on your social account you actually share a link to that video. And voila, you just made one “backlink” to Youtube. So, whatever and whenever a link that is linking to another website is shared it is called a “backlink”.

Each backlink an article has is like a vouch for article content (like a facebook like). The more backlinks (vouches/likes) an article has the more it will look valuable to Google. Thus, Google will rank it closer to 1st. page of search results. Not all backlinks are equally valuable. Those that come from more reliable sources/websites are better than those that come from websites where anyone can write anything. Obviously, having more backlinks from high quality websites helps a lot.

 

Reviews reliability notice

Before we proceed there is an important note we want to highlight. Not all reviews are unreliable because of bad intentions behind. Some are unreliable simply because of a lack of knowledge and lack of valid information. Also, it might happen that they have been published a long time ago and in the meantime they become outdated. Yet, that does not make any difference nor helps you in any way. They are still incorrect and unreliable and by being so they are not useful to you.

 

Now let’s see what Google shows as the most reliable reviews, which are the best cam sites.

In order to make this analysis more relevant we have made two separate searches. First one from the most commonly used general aspect, we have searched for “best cam sites”. Second search we wanted to be from the cam girls perspective. It took some time to find out the most used query since there are many similar. After analysis it turned out that “best sites for cam girls” was the most used query so we used it for our search. Below you see two screenshots of the Google top 10 search results for those two queries in September 2022.

PHOTO 1: best cam sites by google    PHOTO 2: best sites for cam girls by google

 

As you can see there is not much difference in search results. Nine results from those two different ranking lists are leading to the same websites. This is just another confirmation of what we said above a little bit earlier. Despite all the factors and elements included in articles analysis Google uses, its search algorithm does not know how to make a content difference. It is not able to understand different aspects and recognize different perspectives of queries. Not to mention, once again, Google does not know if those results (content) are correct or incorrect, true or false. Absurdly, top 10 search results are practically unusable for anyone. The only exception are advertised sites whose SEO experts have built their ranking for marketing purposes. Let us show you why.

 

6.Breakdown and analysis of Google top search results for the queries “best cam sites” and “best sites for cam girls”

 

Before we start with analysis there are two important things we want to highlight. First, a better search alternative to Google simply does not exist. Yes, you can use Yahoo search, Bing or other search engines but none of them is a match to Google search. In addition to that, the vast majority of common Internet users are using Google search. Those who use alternative search engines are not representing valid volumes to take into consideration. Second, if these top search results are so unreliable can you imagine the reliability of the search results that are not in top? Not necessarily they all will be bad. Yet, can a common internet user or cam girl that is doing a search recognize reliable ones?

Below we are presenting you how (un)reliable, in(accurate) and often false is the content of “best cam sites” articles ranked as the Google top search results.

 

Top search result ranked 1st. – the best (thebrag.com…)

• Monthly traffic within this review is completely outdated.
• Ranking criteria is either unclear or varies and it is mixed so it is not representing precise and clear ranking.
• Jerkmate is ranked as 5th without any valid reason to be so.
• Onlyfans as 10th. is not a classical cam site. It has a different concept than the cam sites. Therefore it does not belong to this category and should not be considered at all.
• Royalcams cam site does not exist as the original cam site. They became bongacams making this ranking absolite.
• Voyeurhousetv also is not a classical cam site. It is completely non relevant for this ranking.
• Model pay range is impossible to confirm. Actually, any amount of pay range can be applied to any cam site. There is no way to check and confirm those numbers.
• Questions and answers as well as rest of the content below can also be discussed.
• There is no ranking table for top 10 results posted so we are attaching 11th. to 15th. (instead of attaching screenshot for each 1st. to 10th. rank separately)

 

Top search result ranked 2nd. (chicagoreader.com…)

• Another review with unclear ranking criteria.
• Cam sites ranking with jerkmate as 1st. and cherrytv as 2nd. is faked (check next chapter and table with accurate ranking results below).
• “Best for” column is unreliable and inaccurate. It looks more like it is there just to fulfill the purpose rather than provide correct information.
• Cam site descriptions are general. They can be replaced among ranked cam sites and still would fit each other.
• Pros and cons are randomly added. They are also more descriptive to fill the form (content) than to present accurate information.

 

Top search result ranked 3rd. (clevescene.com…)

• Again unknown ranking criteria
• Pros and cons bellow the table (check at their website) are false
• Favorizing jerkmate without references. Pros are the same as the majority of other similar cam sites have. They are more like an ad than facts. Cons are focused on high prices and minimal free options. Then what qualifies jerkmate to be ranked as the best one unless it is a pure promotion?
• Chaturbate qualified as outdated? Really? They state that chaturbate requires registration for “juicy stuff”. Both of these two statements are nothing else but a lie.
• Bongacams are qualified as “looking a little cheap” plus with loads of popups. Again not correct.
• Imlive is qualified as an outdated cam site which is also not correct.
• Cams.com is qualified as having a slow server and few free options. Again, nothing of these two is correct. Options they have are the same or similar as other premium cam sites have.
• Stripchat is qualified as having to pay for the good stuff. Another lie.
• Whole article is similar to the one ranked 1st. Besides, it is within the sponsored pages category. That is just another confirmation that review is actually an ad and not a reliable information source.

 

Top search result ranked as 4th. (riverfronttimes.com…)

• Almost a copy-paste of the site ranked as 3rd.
• Best for column is used only to place targeting “keywords” (used for SEO purpose).
• Myfreecams.com qualified as not having many chat opportunities? False, there are many.
• Royalcams as 5th. are bongacams now. Not correct and completely misleading ranking.
• Streamate qualified as an outdated cam site. Another false qualification.
• Bongacams qualified as not having many private chat options. False, they have plenty.
• Flirt4free.com is marked as having expensive private show prices. False, other premium cam sites have similar prices for private shows.
• Luckycrush – what is this ? Totally unknown site. Not even a classical cam site.
• Xcams ? We have no idea of what criteria has qualified this site to be part of this best cam sites ranking list.

 

Top search result ranked as 5th. (usa.inquirer.net…)

• False categorisation of cam sites.
• False ranking.
• Cam site descriptions are content length focused rather than presenting actual correct information.
• Again jerkmate ranked as 5th. without valid and clear reasons but promotion.
• Onlyfans ranked as 10th. Even though they do not belong to the cam sites category.

 

Top search result ranked as 6th. (happymag.tv…), similar to 1st.

• Monthly traffic is completely outdated.
• Unclear ranking criteria.
• Jerkmate 5th. (again) without valid and clear reasons but promotion.
• Onlyfans ranked as 10th. even though they do not belong to the cam sites category.
• Runners up 11th. is dead link, 13th. Voyeurhouse is not a cam site and therefore does not belong to this ranking category, 14th. maturescam is a “white label” of livejasmin, royalcams are bongacams now so their ranking is completely unreliable.

 

Top search result ranked as 7th. (metrotimes.com…)

• To save your time we will just say that it is the same as search results ranked 3rd. and 4th.

 

Top search result ranked as 8th. (ccbill.com…)

• • Stats are a bit outdated.
  • Not favoring any cam site.
  • Additional content has basic informative purpose about cam sites and it is ok.
  • Even cam sites ranking on this site is not accurate, this is still the most trustful ranking article of all top10 search results.

 

Top search result ranked as 9th. (quora.com…)

• Quora Q/A concept does not contain an official best cam sites list and therefore we could not include it in our analysis.

 

Top search result ranked as 10th. (readysetcam.com…)

There are 3 different lists within this review:  best value for money, best in actual month, best to make money – highest paying cam sites. These are the breakdowns of each of 3 lists.

 

First list:

• Having Jerkmate as 1st, cherrytv as 4th and xcams as 7th qualifies this list as false.
• Furthermore, nudelive is white label of streamate which shows that the review writer does not know the difference.
• Onlyfans do not belong to the list since that is not a cam site.
• List contains dead links which makes this list outdated and completely irrelevant.
• On top of that every single link on the list is an affiliate link making clear the purpose of this ranking list.

Second list:

• Similar to 1st. list, it has false ranking of cam sites and the cam site descriptions are not correct.

Third list:

• This list is the closest to being accurate. Yet list still contains some wrong informations

 

Differences between two queries we have used

The only difference between these two Google top search results ranking lists are quora and reddit discussions. However, since their concept is different, these two websites (platforms) don’t contain official cam site rankings. Yet, you may find a lot of various discussions on webcam modeling topics on both. The only issue with those two sources is that informations on both are unsorted and scattered. Also, information reliability posted on both varies a lot.

 

7.Actual accurate cam sites metrics and stats

Note: Initial listing below has been done in september 2022. There is new update below it.

So, what are the best cam sites? Which are the best sites for cam girls? The table below represents the most accurate ranking list you will find today. Cam sites are sorted by their real stats and metrics that best reflect popularity of a website. There are several columns only that are easy to understand. First one represents the number of visits to a cam site per month. Second column shows the average number of how many pages each visitor opens per visit. Third column shows the average time a site visitor (user) spends per visit. Finally, the fourth column shows the global ranking of a cam site. Obviously, the higher the numbers the better with the exception of global ranking.

 

PHOTO: Best cam sites previous accurate ranking (September 2022).

Additional important table notices

What we want here is that you pay attention to cam site stats. If you take a look carefully you will notice that there are some significant differences among them. Some cam sites manage to keep their users on a site for a longer period of time while others don’t. Number of opened pages varies as well. That also speaks to how entertaining they are. Obviously it is not the default rule that a cam site with higher traffic volume keeps the users on site longer than those with lower traffic volume. That tells us cam sites are not equal in quality despite having higher or lower traffic volume. If you are looking for a cam site to start your webcamming career as a cam girl you should take into consideration all numbers. Speaking of becoming a cam girl you will find a few more words just a little below.

You may notice that we have marked several jerkmate stats in red. It is because they significantly stand out compared to cam sites both, ranked above and below. Despite having high traffic volume (which we have used to rank cam sites) other stats are a lot worse. Obviously, something drives away visitors from their cam site.

White labels (sister sites)

Best cam sites list above contains mostly main cam sites. Beside them, there are several sister sites and white labels ranked. It’s because those white label cam sites have significantly high traffic volume (a lot of visits) and good metrics. Beside those on the list, the majority of the most popular cam sites (the ones closer to top) have many additional sister sites and white labels. For those of you who don’t know what the white label cam sites are, here are a few words.

By one of definitions, a white label is when a product or service removes their brand and logo from the end product and instead uses the branding requested by the purchaser. White label cam site is the one that uses all the resources from the main cam site under a different brand (cam site) name. Common users and site visitors can not know if a cam site is the main one or white label. Furthermore, product prices, services, terms and revenues on white labels might significantly differ from the main (original) sites. In our case, cam sites. If you are planning to start working as a cam girl it is very important for you to know the difference. Which are the main and which are white label cam sites. Our recommendation is that you always register as a cam girl on main ones.

 

Cam sites white labels notes

Sometimes white label cam sites have high traffic volume and sometimes don’t. That entirely depends on the white label owner and his promotional and marketing activities. In the table above we have ranked only a few white label cam sites. If we sum up their traffic volume and add it to the traffic volume of the main cam site they belong to, there can be a significant traffic boost (like in the case of flirt4free). As we said above, there are tens, maybe even hundreds of white label cam sites that are not popular. It is impossible to collect and analyze them all. They are not on our best cam sites ranking list simply because of lack of popularity and their low metrics.

 

Affiliated cam sites

Best cam sites are also often affiliated with the most popular adult websites and their networks. Why is this important? Because the access to video content of these adult sites are subscription based. That means users have to pay for monthly membership in order to access video content. Obviously, if they can afford monthly subscriptions on adult sites often they can afford to spend money on cam sites as well. Those are potential extremely valuable users and as such they are considered as high quality traffic. And one more important thing to highlight here. These affiliated cam sites sometimes can generate more traffic than some cam sites from the second part of our listing have.

The last thing. There are many other “main” cam sites which are not known and not that popular. Therefore, we have excluded them from the ranking as well.

 

Facts not taken into consideration when creating best cam sites ranking list (from cam girls perspective)

While creating the best cam site ranking list we have taken into consideration only metrics that represent website popularity. As a cam girl, beside these factors there are many other factors that are of a big importance to you. Some of those are cam site concept, payout percentages, payout dynamics, interface design and many others. You have to take them all into consideration when choosing a cam site you will register at.

 

February 2023 update:

Cam sites private shows exploited – camgirls privacy (not) included (part 3.)

 

First two articles of this series we have published in order to meet you with never disclosed webcam modeling facts. Facts that concern cam model protection where privacy of camgirls private shows as part of it is an absolute must! Because this aspect of webcamming has biggest importance for camgirls you have all the rights to know everything. This third article finalize our presentation on cam model protection by bringing you the “privacy (not) included” list. List that contains cam sites that had serious security issues concerning camgirls private shows and their video streams in general. In case you have missed our previous articles on this matter we suggest you to read them too. First one you can read here Cam model protection – camgirls privacy (not) included). The second one is here Private shows not so private – camgirls privacy (not) included (part 2).

 

Several general words about the “camgirls privacy (not) included” list

Bellow we are bringing you exclusive list of cam sites which had security issues with their private shows video streams. This is genuine and one of a kind list and you will not find these data published absolutely anywhere! It took us a lot of time, effort, patience and discretion to collect all the information. Because list contains sensitive information and because of few other reasons there are several things we would like to highlight:

• Published list was made only of confirmed exploits that we have managed to collect over time.
• None of our staff has put any serious investment into exploit search on our own neither we do have skills and knowledge for any kind of tests. That means there might be other exploited cam sites and methods which we haven’t heard off. Therefore they are not listed within the table.
• Once again: The soul purpose of this article is to provide you with the truth about how the things actually have been. Under any circumstances we don’t aim to harm any third parties or companies that are posted at the list bellow. On the contrary !
  
• Cam sites at the list are randomly sorted
• Carefully read all the data table consist off
• Be sure to read final conclusions bellow the table as well !

 

So what does the table bellow represent?

Table represent list of cam sites at which camgirls privacy was not secured. There are 3 columns showing you the details. First column represent part (feature) of the cam site that was exploited. Second column represent approximate date when exploit was patched. Third column represent exact cam site element that had security issue. We have not made separate column for cam2cam private sessions because cam2cam private sessions are only variation of private shows.

As we stated in our previous articles, in most of these cases exploits were known to small number of cam site users. However, since some of these exploits used to last for years no one can exactly say if they had reach bigger audience. The information you are interested the most is fact that all of the known exploits listed in the table bellow have been patched.

 

Camgirls privacy (not) included list

 

Final conclusions

Somewhere in the middle of 2018 all sources our staff had have disappeared or simply stopped sharing any kind of details. Because of this we are unable to update you with the actual situation from the 2020 and up. As previously stated, all of the exploits mentioned above have been patched by cam sites. In case there are some other discovered in the meantime we don’t have any information of them. What we are strongly suggest is that you pay attention to everything you do in the private the same way you are careful while broadcasting in free.

At the end, we would like to express huge thanks to everyone who have participated in collecting of this data over years. You have done an outstanding contribution to webcamming by sharing your knowledge with us. By doing so, you are creating a lot safer environment for the camgirls. Hopefully, your contribution and shared insights for this article series will help to prevent repeating of such issues again in the future. Thus, it makes webcam modeling job as safe as possible.

 

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Private shows not so private – camgirls privacy (not) included (part 2)

 

Within the first part of this article we have disclosed to you the most sophisticated way of private shows recording. We have been discussing about the awareness of the camming community to this issue and how seriously it was dealt with it. Bellow we are continuing to elaborate the subject and discussing about various recording methods. We will make you familiar with the evolution of private shows recording through the history as well as methods sharing. By going into details we will show you the variety of methods and creativity of users. Our goal is to give you the right picture about the size of the issue that has existed for a decade.

It did not passed much time for the idea of recording the private shows to show up. As soon after first cam sites came up idea was born as well. Cam sites introduced a brand new way of “having fun”. Classic adult sites containing recorded videos could not match with this new interactive experience. Talking live with a girl and asking of her almost anything you want was a breakthrough. Unfortunately, staying in private as long as a user want required a lot of money. The price of such long private experience was closer to science fiction than something affordable for most of the users.

That’s why many of them started to look for alternative ways of accessing the private shows. Some of them were very successful as they have discovered many different ways to achieve that.

 

Recording methods, an short introduction

You are going to be shocked with the diversity of recording methods. Video streaming itself includes a lot of different coding elements to make it possible. Each one of them represent possible spot to exploit. Adult cams as a way of adult entertainment have hit wide base of users where among them skillful and creative coders are. Finding the possible exploits using which private shows stream recording would be possible represented an interesting challenge to them as well. Depending of their different skills and knowledge, various approaches, various concepts have been tried. Logically, they came out with various solutions.

Beside common GUI apps, various “dumpers”, “grabbers”, python, java (and other coding language scripts), rtmp tools, flash bugs exploits other tools showed up. Each one has been using security flaw of a different element. As a result, these users were capable of recording private shows for free. Not just their own but any private show they wanted to record.

 

Evolution – history of the private show recording

It all started with simple GUI applications for recording of streaming videos. It was enough to install the application, start it and enter your favorite performers chat room. As these applications have been scanning (sniffing) network traffic they were able to find the streaming video link easily. To download video to computer it wasn’t even been necessary to stay in the chat room. Note that cam models could not notice this process. To models, this process was absolutely invisible. As far as they could know, if there was no users listed in the room, nothing was happening. They felt safe and comfortable to do the things they would not do while broadcasting in public.

Most popular GUI (graphical user interface) applications

applications used for this were Orbit downloader, Stream recorder, and IDM (Internet Download Manager). As they were out of the box products their use did not require any coding skills. It was enough to install them and you were good to go. Because of this they were very popular at the very beginning. However, except the IDM which is updated even today, most of these stream downloading applications became outdated.

Beside there, there were some other, more specialized applications for stream recording. They had better sniffing capabilities, better protocol support and they could also record encrypted streams (as the encryption was badly implemented in general). Most popular app for recording purposes was Replay Media Catcher but beside it there were several others capable of doing the same thing. Jaksta, HiDownload, VSO downloader and GetFLV are just some of them.

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Rtmpdump gets patched (and the nightmare begins)

However, as the time was passing adult cams were becoming more and more popular. With the popularity rising there were more and more people interested into them and therefore new methods of recording were discovered. More skillful people have started to write “java” scripts, use python (coding language) to create small apps for recording etc. At some point of time, patched version of RTMPDUMP app showed up. It is enough for you to know that RTMP was protocol used for distribution of video content between server and client (you and your visitors and/or customers). The “dump” word clearly describes what this app do – it dumps (saves/record) video content to a local file in your PC.

Combining the java coding language with this tool made a revolution in recording. Suddenly, most of the cam sites become widely open for anyone with a bit more knowledge. At some point of time even some “home made” applications (generally called “grabbers” or “dumpers”) have been made for the only one purpose – recording of the shows (private where possible and public by default). They made recording of the models you want to follow automatic. Even all this went on a whole new, larger scale, some cam sites took months to update their video streams. Adding extra layer of stream protection against recording for some took even years. For all that time, it was possible to record private shows easily (and for free).

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Target camsites (which cam sites have been aimed the most)

So which cam sites were aimed? Speaking of cam sites that were the most common targets there is not much to elaborate. The patch above temporarily made exposed all cam sites to this vulnerability. It was only matter of the knowledge and the skill levels you have and almost any cam site could be exploited. Yet, philosophy was the most common and logical one as it is still today. The more popular cam site was the more often it was aimed to be exploited. Thanks to this, smaller and less popular cam sites have not been targeted that much by pure coincidence. They end up being lucky having a thing less to care about. Generally speaking, there is no official ranking of cam sites regarding how often they were hit. You will hardly find any information about this online as well.

As said in first part of this article series, these topics have never being published. Anyway, you can consider myfreecams, chaturbate and livejasmin as the most popular cam sites that were aimed. Today they are still at the top of the list as well.

 

 

Methods sharing (back in time Vs today)

The same way the things have been changing in general sharing was changing (evolving) too. At the beginning people shared the tricks freely. Everywhere and without any hesitation. But, as the time has been passing and followed by methods being patched over the, time sharing went “underground”. Not much info could be found posted at various forum boards anymore and the ones that still could be found become outdated. Users who were recording shows simply organized themselves different. They have adapted to the situation creating private boards or small groups. Suddenly, e-mail communication and direct chatting via skype or similar chatting tools has replaced public discussions.

Secondly, an significant number of guys went solo simply disappearing from the public. They stopped communicating with absolutely everyone. Not because of their own safety or their security. It’s because they did not want to share their knowledge with anyone anymore. The “rule” was very simple and it is valid even today. The less people know about any exploit the longer it will last.

 

Situation today

Today things went into models favor. Due to technologies and protocol improvements, adobe flash and rtmp protocol are being mostly replaced with the HTML5. This upgrade made old exploits outdated and recording of private shows become a lot more challenging. Cam sites finally improved their security and made cam model protection more efficient. We can say that today you can feel a lot more safer than it was the case only few years ago. Even no one can say webcamming is 100% secured today you can be sure that security issues are minimized. Thanks to taken actions webcam modeling in general is a lot more safe.

Cam sites & camgirls biggest challenges today

The latest and the biggest challenge cam sites and camgirls have today is extremely high level of piracy because of monetizing recorded videos. Piracy and broken copyrights ownership are the biggest problems camgirls and cam sites have today. Many Internet users realized how popular cam sites are and how popular camming is. But the crucial fact is how much money is involved in webcamming entertainment industry in general.

Some users have seen a chance to “take a piece of the cake” and make big profit for themselves. Unfortunately that included illegal recording of camgirls private shows and stealing their content. That’s why lately  many websites that are offering enormous collections of videos for download showed up. Concept is super easy. Users have to register and pay monthly membership fee or they pay per GB of downloaded content.

To sum up things, camgirls videos that are being recorded today are not private videos anymore. Most of the camgirls videos available for download today are recorded free chat sessions only. As said in paragraph above that’s because cam sites improved their private streams protection. Private shows recording on a large scale today became almost impossible.

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Cam model protection – camgirls privacy (NOT) included (cam sites decade long security flaws)

 

As you can notice, our biggest concern that we are constantly highlighting at camlessons.net is cam model protection. Privacy, security and safety at first place! Being an cam girl brings a lot of possible risks and therefore learning you how to stay safe is something we insist on. Everything else comes after. Unfortunately these aspects haven’t been in the main focus almost anywhere online. Sadly, even at the places where they should be in primal focus – cam sites itself. Before going into details we would like to highlight few important things.

As first within this article we are not going to learn you how to protect yourself and your privacy online. What are the steps and little tricks on how you can improve your safety online being a cam girl. Those topics we have covered through several lessons within our Safety Course and Premium hints. As second, by publishing the facts we have gotten over time, our intention is not to cause panic in any way. The soul purpose of this article is to provide you with the untold truth about how private shows actually have (not) been safe. To give you the true picture of the webcam modeling through past decade. How the things actually were while not being presented to you. Under any circumstances we don’t aim to harm any third parties or companies that will be mentioned within this and the upcoming articles.

 

What exactly we are going to reveal

In the following three part article we are going to disclose to you the top secrets strongly hidden from the public. Cam model protection security issues being hidden from camgirls for almost a whole decade! Huge security issues concerning private shows. Not only on less popular cam sites but also at some of the best cam sites. Beside live private shows that have been affected, cam2cam mode as well as other broadcasting modes have been affected as well.  On top of that, cam sites “video on demand” sections (VOD’s) had been impacted also. Pay attention that this article does not focus on the well known “screen recording methods”. That is the childish game comparing to what we are going to reveal instead.

This article focus and explains a whole new level of approach to private shows recording – direct stream recording of your private chat sessions you had with the customers done by third parties (persons) in a real time. What is even worse, these security issues did not affect only your live private sessions. They also allowed unauthorized downloading of yours previously recorded private sessions. These videos were being officially sold as part of special “video on demand” sections at popular cam sites. Unfortunately, for some people these recorded videos have been “within touch of a hand” to them.  With only few clicks they could download any video they wanted completely free of a charge. Not only as member of a cam site but even as a guests!

 

Aspects we are covering bellow

Obviously these security issues had huge impact on your privacy and you have all the right to know everything in as close as possible details. Within this article we are going to discuss about:

• How serious cam model protection was – meet the facts ?
• How long security issues were present at cam sites ?
• Reasons and origins of private shows recording
• Information that were going into public
• How well cam girls have been informed about these serious security issues ?
• Content we are preparing for the 2nd. part of this article

Hopefully, we all will learn from this doing our best to make adult camming safer for the camgirls in the future. So let’s go.

 

How serious cam model protection was – meet the facts

Building a cam site is hard task and it takes enormous skills, knowledge, resources and efforts. However, once it is done and cam site goes live involved parties expect that everything works properly. The last thing expected is that there are security issues of any kind. Can you imagine how serious security issue represent situation where unauthorized user can access site sections he doesn’t have access rights? Situation where with just a little more knowledge user can not only to enter and watch cam girl private sessions with a customers anytime he want (for free) but also he is able to record the sessions as well?

Well that is exactly what these security issues were about. Of course, if these situations haven’t been prevented before the cam site went online at first place, they should be fixed (patched) to prevent this happens in the future as soon as possible. No matter how big and complicated tasks security measurement updates are they should be done as quick as possible!

 

How long security issues were present at cam sites ?

Unfortunately, majority of cam sites were affected by these security issues unacceptable long. Believe it or not, some visitors could enter and watch what camgirls are doing in their privacy for years!

If so, question is how much and how seriously was taken care about these security issues by the cam site administrators and owners ? Well, we are going to leave to you to make your own conclusion. However, fact that some of these issues lasted for so long give you pretty much clear answer. Moreover, you can be 100% sure that if the publishing of recorded shows didn’t become viral past several years most of these security issues would be still present. Same as before and all the years till now, you would not know anything about them felling safe and confident in your private shows.

 

Why recording at first place (different goals)

Many of you might ask yourselves about moral and ethical aspects of private shows recording. Especially not your own ones but private shows camgirls had with the other customers. From the common sense point of view, it shows how questionable manners a person who records have. Eventually, if bad or no his intentions might be in general. Despite you are being 100% right about this, there are some aspects from the other side. These aspects will give you alternative but still valid reasons of such behave.

At first, users who knew about cam sites security issues were recording private shows often for their personal pleasure only. This is often seen as “educational purposes only” but that doesn’t change anything. Some site users are collecting recorded videos the same way as some others collect music, movies or books for example. Furthermore, some of those users simply could not afford to purchase credits or tokens used to pay for private shows with favorite models. Chance that they can record private shows of their favorite camgirls for free was great money saving alternative for them. They were able to watch their favorite cam girls all the time at no cost.

Finding the cam sites “holes” as a challenge

Furthermore, to some users finding exploits and security holes within a cam site was like a challenge. Creating programs for recording of the private shows was fun time for them. And, not only that. By testing cam sites and searching for exploits (holes) they have been improving their programming skills. In most cases they had no bad intentions after what they discover. From the camgirls perspective of things, the biggest concern was what happens with the recorded videos at the end? What the video owners do with them recorded private shows? That being said, in most of the cases above, you should not be worried. There were some cases of camgirls blackmailing by video owners at it worst but those would be stand alone cases. Generally this was not happening.

 

Information for the camgirls & the public

As for the end there is one extremely important aspect we would like to point to. How much information regarding cam model protection and these security issues went to public? Has anyone notified camgirls about these? Have there been any reports of this anywhere at all? Have there been any known efforts taken in order to stop this? As far as our reports and research says – close to none. As far the models we were talking with knew – zero.

Those facts arise two seriously big questions. First, did the cam site admins, their tech staff and owners knew about these security issues or not ? Judging by the time span for which all these security issues have existed it seems they did not know. Thinking that they knew and it still took so much time for them to apply fixes is at least weird.

However, after publishing of recorded private shows become viral and many websites with recorded content showed up, reaction finally came. Who’s fault was this delay stays without the answer.

 

Possible consequences of publishing

The second, more important question is why this has never been told to models? Well the answer to this is showing up by itself. Would you be working for a cam site knowing that your private actually might not be private? Can you imagine how huge consequences to the cam sites and studios would this information have if being published? One of the key answers why this was never told to camgirls might lay in the fact that none of the cam sites wanted to make panic. Announcing such serious security issues would sure lead to lose of reputation cam site had. Models would quit their camming job from those sites and profit of affected cam sites would go down significantly. Obviously, it was not in public interest this to be known.

You probably know that any security breach usually gets announced and published after the issue is already solved and security holes patched. That’s simply how big companies work. That’s their way of protecting themselves of loosing their users and/or customers. Obviously, cam sites and studios were following the same pattern doing just the same.

 

Feedback we got from the cam girls

Not a single cam girl we talked with (we have talked with many) has been aware of these security issues. The only thing cam girls eventually knew of was “screen recording” method of recording of the private shows. They have accepted that as a part of the webcamming job and webcam modeling risk. None of the camgirls was aware that it was possible to watch and record their private shows. And, not only private shows but other broadcasting modes like “break”, “away” and similar. Unfortunately, some other interests were more important than cam model protection.

 

Upcoming 2nd. part of this article – content we are going to present

As we don’t want to end everything said above as the “dead letter on a piece of paper” we are preparing second part of the article. Within it we are going to write more details about evolution (history) of camgirls private shows recording. Furthermore, we are going to reveal various recording methods that were used and explain how these methods were spread. The part you are the most interested in will be the listing of all cam sites which had security issues over the past 10 years. To each cam site from the list we will add the recording methods they were exposed too. Keep in mind that we are limiting this list only to the security issues we could confirm. Yet, it will contain some “big” names and list will be pretty much shocking to you.

As for now, our final and maybe the most important words. We would be more than happy if all this information could reach every single person working as a cam model. Hopefully and with a bit of luck, the word and the truth will reach everyone. It will help in preventing of the similar problems to happen again in the future. All that should make your webcam modeling job as a cam girl better secured.

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Make money on webcam (latest facts and the truth not being told)

 

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