The popular chat website Omegle is shutting down after 14 years.
&ldquo;As much as I wish circumstances were different, the stress and expense of this fight &ndash; coupled with the existing stress and expense of operating Omegle, and fighting its misuse &ndash; are simply too much. Operating Omegle is no longer sustainable, financially nor psychologically,&rdquo; Omegle founder Leif K-Brooks said in a <a href="https://www.omegle.com/">lengthy statement</a>.&nbsp;
The founder noted a &ldquo;constant barrage of attacks on communication services&rdquo; that were &ldquo;based on the behavior of a malicious subset of users.&rdquo;
Despite their efforts to put a positive impact beyond the site, such as working with local agencies by providing evidence on the website collected against these &ldquo;evildoers&rdquo; now rotting behind bars, and welcoming constructive feedback, K-Brooks said the &ldquo;recent attacks have felt anything but constructive.&rdquo;
&ldquo;The only way to please these people is to stop offering the service. Sometimes they say so, explicitly and avowedly; other times, it can be inferred from their act of setting standards that are not humanly achievable. Either way, the net result is the same,&rdquo; the founder added.&nbsp;
Omegle has been brimming with controversies over the years, such as reports of abusers and pedophiles lurking around the site.
In 2021, BBC found out children <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67364634">exposed themselves to strangers</a> online through the video chat option in Omegle, often captured and distributed by predators from the website.&nbsp;
BBC investigations also revealed that <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64618791">Omegle was mentioned in over 50 cases against pedophiles</a> in the past two years&mdash;more than 20 in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Spain, Colombia, and Cyprus.&nbsp;

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Popular chat website Omegle shuts down after 14 years