Why Surfing Porn on Android Smartphones Is Not Safe?
Here is why you should not surf porn on your Android smartphones and tablets
Last week we had covered how surfing porn in Incognito mode on all browsers is not that safe. Today we look to another facet of our modern day life, surfing porn on Android smartphones. Since many people still don’t own a PC/laptop it becomes easy to surf porn on your Android smartphones in private. It also helps that smartphones being small can immediately be hidden in case someone jumps on you during your porn watching session.However, it is worth nothing that surfing porn on Android smartphones is not at all safe. Why?
Here are a few reasons why you should not watch porn on Android smartphones.
The
biggest reason for staying away from porn on your Android smartphones
is security. According to research, almost one-quarter of malware on
mobile devices comes from porn websites. In other words, watching mobile
porn on your Android smartphone is a much higher risk than watching it
on your PC. Reason? Smartphone operating systems, especially Android,
are not as secure as a PC, there are many vulnerabilities that are
unknown, and exploited by cybercrime.
Another security problem is
Porn tickers. Porn tickers are an irritating age-old problem with
Android smartphones. These come as a fake version of a legit Android
app. Like if you watch porn on an Android mobile and then head on to the
Play Store to download popular games, porn tickers will disguise
themselves in the form of Temple Run, Hay Day, etc. So, if someone taps
on it without going through the credentials, they are basically
downloading a Trojan.The reason for this is that Android smartphones operate in an entirely different format compared to PC/laptops. Another risky aspect of watching porn on Android smartphones is that except for big websites like Pornhub and Xvideos, most other websites use your Android/custom media player to play porn movies. You may have noticed that when you click to play a porn movie, it asks for permission to leave the porn website leaving your porn surfing habits open to scrutiny.
The system of private containers doesn’t exist on Android smartphones except on Samsung Galaxy series smartphones which have a service called Knox. This service, unique to Samsung opens everything in a private container if the smartphone wishes. Hopefully, going ahead more phone manufacturers will bring Samsung Knox like features to their smartphones.
One of the biggest culprits of leaks is location services. Most Android smartphone owner have locations services enabled for a variety of reasons such as for Google Now or Facebook Messenger, sometimes unknown to them. Chances are that such services are enabled even during watching porn on your smartphone, thereby compromising your privacy.
Remember most of the things you do are reported back to Google servers in one form or the other. Follow this basic steps while watching porn.
- Disable location services
- Watch in incognito mode
- Use Knox like features to watch porn
- Surf only renowned services like Pornhub or Xvideos which have their own native players
- Dont install files/visit sites which look dubios
- Dont install apps from porn websites
- Stay Safe ;)
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