‘Like destroying the universe because it contains evil’: Video chat site Omegle shut down

Blog post1 min readUpdated Feb 22, 2025View source ↗

Omegle, the social video site that paired you for chats with a random stranger ala Chatroulette-style, has been shut down following the site being branded a haven for sexual predators for years. Leif K-Brooks, who founded Omegle in 2009, aged 18, announced that the site was closing in a lengthy post. Carrie Goldberg, lawyer for […]

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