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[โ€“] venusaur@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (10 children)
[โ€“] Prismaarchives@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

Omegle

Gramps, they shut down 2 years ago

[โ€“] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There are new versions with extremely similar names.

[โ€“] Prismaarchives@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago

Are any of those official successors?

Just about any defunct online service sees a dozen knockoffs of even more questionable quality than the original (for those into manga, think what happened to the site batoto after being sold). But it still remains that if you go to omegle.com, you get the defunct page and an explanation. Typing it into search engines did give exactly one that I know is legitimately a chatting service (ome.tv), but also are trying to act as if they are the original sites, some seemingly using templates and pointing to different apps to direct download their apks and the like.

I think suggesting they're the same as the original (which was grimy, and full of sex pests, but the site itself didn't pose such blatant infosec issues) is disingenuous imo

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