The Ghost Report: We Audited the Privacy Policies of 68 Adult Platforms

Key findings

1. 1. Only 1 platform in 68 passes all three checks. Across the 68 platforms we track, exactly one — Candy AI — clears all three Ghost checks in its published policies. Six more clear two of three.
2. 2. 48 of 68 platforms could not demonstrate a single privacy commitment. For 71% of platforms, not one of the three checks could be verified as a pass from the platform’s own published policies — the policy either fails the check outright or does not address it at all.
3. 3. Only 17 of 68 policies clearly grant data deletion. Data deletion is the check platforms most often pass — and it still fails or goes unaddressed in 3 out of 4 policies. For a product category built on intimate data, 75% of platforms make no clear, quotable deletion commitment.
4. 4. Anonymous payment is nearly extinct. Nine platforms in 68 make a verifiable commitment to anonymous transactions; three explicitly fail it; the remaining 56 leave it unverifiable or inapplicable. Crypto acceptance is rarer still: two passes, seventeen explicit fails.
5. 5. Silence, not malice, is the industry default. The dominant status across all three checks is “unverified” — the policy simply does not say. Users are not being lied to; they are being told nothing.

The picture

The aggregate table

n = 68 platforms, checked from 2026-07-02. Ghost score distribution: one platform at 3/3, six at 2/3, thirteen at 1/3, forty-eight at 0/3.

The full scoreboard: all 68 platforms

Sorted by Ghost score. Every verdict below is backed by a quoted policy line with source URL and check date on the platform's review page — click through any name.

Methodology

Each check is a verdict on the platform’s own published policy pages (privacy policy, terms, pricing), never on marketing claims. A pass requires quotable policy text, which we publish alongside a source URL and check date on the platform’s listing page. “Unverified” means the policy does not address the question — we do not guess. Checks are re-run when policies change. Full framework: methodology.

Licensing and citation

All figures free to reuse with attribution to Sindexed and a link to this page (CC BY 4.0). Per-platform verdicts and quotes: support@sindexed.com.