Cockhero.info scam!

[Coder]

The mentioned site is just a turd. Blaming 3rd party ads is irrelevant, the sheer quantity & style of ads on the site is entirely unnecessary. The site is clearly intended as a profit making enterprise, putting content created & distributed for free, already, here, behind a slew of all the worst kinds of ads, while not actually even hosting the content, something the ~10000 porno streaming sites manage with less of this kinda shit. The characterisation of the site as having onlly one 'internal' ad is a straightup lie, aside 'normal' ads & popups, every single content link is sent through adfly

I am not entirely convinced the site owner is intentionally inflicting malware upon their visitors, but they're certainly trying to squeeze as much money as possible out of other peoples work via a terrible terrible service.
The scam, which is an accurate term, is part of a small group of sites, all essentially the same site, all operating on the same principle: a shitload of ads disguising content they have no claim to, already hosted on other sites. I'm not sure whether the subsites are some kinda really shitty "we'll host your adult site" thing, and the individual running this version is an unwitting victim, or if it's (more logically) one guy running the whole thing, either way a pastebin with a gabbly would be a superior alternative.

I'm sure there are plenty of people on this forum familiar enough with running websites to know that the owner is, sadly, turning a profit from this. The hosting costs, even if they were hosting the videos themselves, would be easily covered; as it is, the site operates mostly on hotlinking from the actual video hosts, I wouldn't be too surprised if it was entirely freehosted, though on balance of their depressing number of visitors, that probably isn't quite the case.

I suggest sourcing your CH vids elsewhere. Like here.

[green]

I dont really get it.

Whats bad about turning a profit when running a website. Its quite some work to gather content and list it nicely. Not to mention the programmingn and designing part. Why not getting paid for it ?

In reality those ads wont make much money anyways. I know how almost impossible it is to make good money from ads unless you have 50k+ visitor / day. And if you have that there are better ways than ads.

I don't see any problems here.

The only problem I can see is that they probably don't have permission from the creators of the videos to submit them there... But then again the video creators probably dont have permission to use the video-material anyway.

I think all is as fine as it could be in this grayzone of the net

[Coder]

Nothing wrong with turning a profit, but there are many individual things wrong with that site, the bad ads, the other bad ads, the further allegedly malwary ads, the disingenious representations about ads & "hosting costs", hotlinking, the other peoples content,* & the layout of the site being designed intentionally badly for reasons of viewing more ads.


*you sorta have a point wrt that but CH is generally a work of substantial effort even if with dubious rights issues & at best it's "two wrongs don't make". For me, knowing how much work people put into create these things, and then always give them away for free, I think it's real scummy to obscure their location to try to make a few bucks. I've never noticed any of the creators here put adlinks through to their downloads, but someone is downloading them, then reuploading them elsewhere & making money from the new links...



Knowing me I'm probably more annoyed with it than 99% of the people who make CH, but as the topic of the thread is what it is, thought I'd add my perspective:the layout and addyness is very bad I reckon, ya can ignore the rest.

[servufon]

i think that was pretty well-said, in both posts, @Coder, thanks.

[nortmase]

Hi all,

We respect everyone opinion, but just to clarify, last month we do some coding and server changes, now the site is running on 2 servers with a response < 1sec.
50% of visitors have adblocker with leads to 50% of popups and banners.
From the 50% of banners only 5-10clicks/day.
Six months ago we had 2 popups, this allow us to pay 1 month ahead. Now only 1 pop is active.

The viewer.ch.info is separated from the main site for technical reasons, and don't have any popups.
We can't remove pops from the viewer, they are embed on the player from the original site.
I already saw the malware that people are complaing, asking to "click here to install flash", this is not from the site or from ads on site, they are from the external players.
For Example: http://videomega.tv/?ref=2UJVM8GMO44OMG8MVJU2
If someone remember we had a disclaimer "videomega is a free service, they ask to click..", Videomega force us to remove it. (Dropvideo disclaimer still visible)
If someone can run servers without covering server costs, we can not. We don't ask for donations or money goal, we work with what we have.

Hope all is clarified. We try to have the site info the more complete as possible, and accept all sugestions and links/info submits to make it better.

Thanks

[servufon]

why not just upload the videos to a less spammy streaming site and link from cockhero.info as a portal?

[cockheroaddict]

Here is what I know for a fact.I have been to Xhamster and everything was fine.
Pornhub and everything fine as well.VideoOne and everything fine. YouPorn and everything was fine.I have been to all the big porn sites and some of the smaller ones and the ONLY place where my screen was locked down was at the CH.info site.

I even stupidly went there another time and it happened again on a different video.I do not think it is a coincidence that THE ONLY TIME I have ever had ransomware attempt to get me was on that site.And never anywhere else.

[alois]

Hi all,

Hope all is clarified. We try to have the site info the more complete as possible, and accept all sugestions and links/info submits to make it better.

Thanks

Then place the information on the website that there is a risk of infecting your computer when watching videos.

Please

[Bob816]

Here is what I know for a fact.I have been to Xhamster and everything was fine.
Pornhub and everything fine as well.VideoOne and everything fine. YouPorn and everything was fine.I have been to all the big porn sites and some of the smaller ones and the ONLY place where my screen was locked down was at the CH.info site.

I even stupidly went there another time and it happened again on a different video.I do not think it is a coincidence that THE ONLY TIME I have ever had ransomware attempt to get me was on that site.And never anywhere else.

Definitely, this isn't even a discussion. The site is crap, and is full of invasive ads. Yes, you MIGHT be able to avoid them with a good ad-blocker, but it's still a crappy site that is full of potentially harmful ads. The argument that it's somehow not the fault of the site but instead is due to third-party links is frankly ridiculous. I wish there were more Cock Hero vids uploaded to some of the major streaming sites that you mentioned.

[book_guy]

I personally find the ad-mal-ware of cockhero.info rather easy to deal with. It IS mal-ware, and you DO have to be careful, but if you keep your wits about you, it won't cause you much trouble. Just be sure not to download or install anything that you don't know how to get rid of, and keep your anti-virus running competently. No problems for me ... yet ...