Omegle, a popular website used to video chat with strangers, is shutting down after almost 15 years. The closure comes amid increasing criticism that the site endangered its users, with reports of ...

Omegle, an online chat service that billed itself as an anonymous forum to "talk to strangers," has shut down amid allegations it served as a hotbed for criminal activities. In a lengthy statement ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Earlier this month, Hidaya Saban and Alees Elshiek opened the video chat website Omegle for what they described as a social ...

Omegle, a website that connected strangers for video chats, has shut down after a lawsuit accused it of facilitating child abuse. Founder Leif K-Brooks announced the closure Wednesday in a lengthy ...

Popular live video chat website Omegle is shutting down after 14 years following user claims of abuse. The service, which randomly placed users in online chats with strangers, grew in popularity with ...

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Before it shut down on Thursday, Omegle — a platform that paired strangers in video chats — paired a lot of children with predators. It did so for more than a decade, drawing scores of lawsuits over ...

Picture this. It’s 2009. You’ve just finished school and you’re headed to your friend's house because they have their own computer in their room which their parents don’t see. You sign on to a new ...

After 14 years online, Omegle shut down as part of a settlement in a $22 million sex trafficking lawsuit. If anything was a surprise, it was that the anonymous, randomized chat site was still ...

Omegle, a random video chat site that began with the ideal of connecting strangers but one that's also long been accused of enabling sexual predators, has ceased operations, according to its founder, ...

The founder of Omegle has shut down the anonymous chat website over safety concerns. Leif K-Brooks, who launched the site in 2009 at the age of 18, said Omegle had been “misused to commit unspeakably ...

Warning: this story contains disturbing adult themes. A BBC investigation into the increasingly popular live video chat website Omegle has found what appear to be prepubescent boys explicitly touching ...