I Audited 95 Adult Sites for Privacy Using The Markup's Blacklight — Here's the Data

I run an independent review site for adult platforms. Early on I realized that nobody was doing systematic privacy audits of these sites — the kind where you actually measure trackers, cookies, and invasive scripts across a large dataset rather than just saying "use incognito mode." So I built a workflow around The Markup's Blacklight tool and scanned 95 adult websites. This post covers the methodology, the tooling, the results, and what surprised me. The stack Blacklight ( themarkup.org/blacklight ) — The Markup's real-time privacy inspector. It loads a URL in a headless browser and detects: Third-party trackers (scripts loaded from external domains) Third-party cookies Canvas fingerprinting Session recording (mouse movements, clicks, scrolls replayed as video) Keystroke capture (logging what users type) VirusTotal ( virustotal.com ) — Scans URLs against 90+ antivirus engines. A score of 0/94 means no engine flagged the site. Anything above 0 is a warning. The workflow: Load the site