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In a new report, Motherboard takes a squint at these tools and the underground rings that booty coverage of them. It's fascinating, frustrating, and account a read.

According to scrapers who spoke to Motherboard, a user with "some commencing telestic knowledge" can use scripts conscript "scrapers" to burglarize through the OnlyFans website and download largish volumes of content.

"Some bodies own server farms that download terabytes of documents every day from OF [OnlyFans]," a developer of one of the OnlyFans scrapers, who we've macerated to name in this registration to limit adit to their tools, told Motherboard in an email.

Some of these tools were Chrome browser extensions that harmonics users the option to download cut-up hereupon from the OnlyFans site. Google removed an OnlyFans scratching Chrome notes when approached for commentate by Motherboard.

But the types of tools varied, often requiring some coding loquacity to operate. Motherboard acclimated some of these tools to verify that they work.

One documents collector, referred to as DHRB, acclimated a scraper to booty coverage of promotions that fecundate users to briefly subscribe for free. During the promotion, the calligraphy grabs as opulent cut-up as it can, in a technique conscript "timed promotion sniping."

"We've indisputably scraped finance that listen thousands of videos. We don't compress carnage either spine we prefer quality over storage space. Unambiguously everything gets scraped. Images, videos, audio and text," DHRB said.

DHRB supposed what appears to be a supply consecution of OnlyFans content, with prosaic being sold from one being to another, and one that original creators may be unaware that their cut-up is catastrophe up in.

"The documents I scrape is resold to a few cortege who either own blase websites that host pirated cut-up or bodies who resell cut-up on Discord. I only handle OnlyFans though," DHRB said. "It squarely is just kickup downward a rabbit hole. One being sells to another, and then that being sells to another, and therefore on."

Motherboard reports that you can find this baseborn cut-up on prescriptive porn sites, including Pornhub, YouPorn, and XVideos, which then monetize the cut-up with ads on the sides. Motherboard also found Reddit finance offering folders impregnated of pirated videos and users selling OnlyFans finance preloaded with baseborn credits that buyers can use to acquirement top-secret media. Other users run Dislike servers where they sell the cut-up or sell their scratching casework for a low fee that undercuts the accounts' subscription price.

Industry professionals told Motherboard that whimsical stigma disputing sex work emboldens this theft. "Those stealing the cut-up finger that it's their seasonable to booty it, that the creators deserve the abuse by virtue of the work they do," said Kat Revenga, carnality stewards of FanCentro, an OnlyFans competitor. And multiple performers noted that the risk of theft and piracy devalues their work and reduces the time and effort they're willing to put into their content.

OnlyFans is far from the only podium where piracy is a problem. Except Motherboard's telecast highlights the unrepeated difficulties that porn creators and publishers face, hostilely at a time when such cut-up is in hostilely lifted demand.