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Omegle shuts down: Anonymous chat site was used to commit ‘heinous crimes’

Author

Eleanor Gray

Published Apr 05, 2026

Omegle was a website that allowed strangers to anonymously connect with each other using text or video chat. Although users could enter keywords to filter people based on specific interests, they were always matched up at random. If you didn’t like the person you were talking to, or what they were doing, you could jump to another conversation.