MyVidster – What is it and is it Safe?
MyVidster is basically a site for sharing videos and for social bookmarking which makes it possible for users to share videos that they love. Basically, with MyVidster, it is possible to collect a particular video that you love from a website and share it with other people. Apart from sharing videos on MyVidster, you can also follow other individuals that make use of MyVidster and get to see the videos they post. As a site for sharing content, MyVidster does not have a means of identifying works that have been copyrighted. This site has its corporate headquarters in the southern part of the United States.
Contrary to what a lot of people assume, MyVidster does not infringe of copyright laws because what it simply does is it gives regular individuals the privilege of putting up links of copyrighted videos which have been hosted on third-party websites. While it might seem like this video sight is an infringer, the truth remains it is not as far as the distribution of copyrighted work is concerned. If there is any infringer, such infringer is the fellow that goes ahead to upload works that have already been copyrighted.
MyVidster was founded by Marques Gunter on the 1st of February, 2007 and is ranked 1,572, out of all the sites on the internet. This is possible because of the fact that up to 10,915,272 people visit it on a monthly basis. At the moment, MyVidster is estimated to have a monthly income of $10million.
Is MyVidster Safe?
MyVidster might be a site which makes it easy to view videos that you normally will not be able to view on other sites easily. It, however, has quite some downsides.
MyVidster features a family filter. This might imply that it contains some content that can be regarded as explicit. This, however, is not a clear warning that there are adult contents on it. On MyVidster, it is very easy to view porn and this makes it a dangerous site for minors. Although with the presence of a family filter, you will not come in contact with any porn related videos. But, as soon as this filter is turned off, you have adult content staring you in the face.
In addition to being a site that can be said to be unsafe for minors, MyVidster features a lot of pop up ads. As a matter of fact, its degree of pop up ads is quite more than that on lots of porn sites.
While MyVidster might not be safe for minors and might have more pop up ads than a lot of porn sites. It, however, does not put you at the risk of being affected by malware. McAfee has shown that it does not put your device at a major risk. Also, it is not on Bluecoat’s list of malware sites.
This simply means MyVidster can be said to be a safe site for your device, as well as for adults. It, however, cannot be said to be a safe site for your children.
About Christian Reynolds
Christian is the chief reporter, editor, and webmaster at Cleveland Leader. An aspiring news anchor, his hobbies outside of investigative reporting are golf, martinis, and adventure travel. If you have a scoop on any developing story, please contact him on this page.
