Is yidio.com legit or a scam?
Yidio is an established streaming aggregator (founded 2008) with clean security scans, legitimate business registration, and strong app-store ratings despite some older user complaints about paid redirects.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
MT Intelligence
Yidio operates as a legitimate video search and discovery service backed by 18 years of continuous operation and a registered California LLC with known investors. Our antivirus network shows zero malicious detections across 92 engines, and the domain ranks in the global top-100k by traffic. Business registration confirms Yidio LLC as an active entity founded in 2008 with physical offices in San Francisco and San Diego. The iOS app maintains a 4.3-star rating from 3,500+ reviews, and Google Play shows 3.4 stars from 27,000 reviews — typical for a mature consumer service. Two older Web of Trust complaints (10–15 years old) mention misleading 'free' claims leading to paid services, a common user frustration with aggregator models but not indicative of active fraud. Independent review aggregators rate the site as legitimate and reliable. No current scam reports, malware detections, or phishing indicators appear in our scan.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for yidio.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain active for ~18 years (registered ~2008), matches the company's founding date.
- Operated by Yidio LLC, a legitimate California company with physical addresses in San Francisco and San Diego; angel-backed with named investors.
- Provides legitimate streaming search and discovery service aggregating 100+ providers (Netflix, Hulu, Prime, etc.); has iOS/Android apps with thousands of reviews (App Store ~4.3/5 from 3.5K ratings, Google Play 3.4/5 from 27K).
- Scamadviser rates it as 'very likely not a scam but legit and reliable' with positive highlights including high Tranco popularity rank, old domain, and positive reviews.
- Trustpilot shows 4-star rating but based on only 4 reviews; older WOT user comments (10-15 years old) accuse it of misleading 'free' claims that lead to paid services or rare malware reports.
- Company self-reports 15M+ monthly users, 9M+ registered users, and over 1M titles tracked; Wikipedia and media coverage (TechCrunch) confirm its role as a video aggregator.
- One 2014 copyright infringement lawsuit (National Photo Group v. Yidio LLC) that was settled; no ongoing fraud or scam cases found.
- Scamadviseropen
"In summary, yidio.com is very likely not a scam but legit and reliable."
- Trustpilotopen
"Do you agree with Yidio's 4-star rating? Check out what 4 people have written so far"
- App Storeopen
"This app is really nice at what it does: making you a streaming list that shows what's on the apps you own that is generally accurate."
- TechCrunch (2013)open
"Yidio’s new app makes it easy to search for any TV show or movie across free, paid and subscription-based services"
Yidio LLC, registered in California. Addresses listed in San Francisco (650 Mission Street) and San Diego (BBB profile). Founded 2008. Profitable, angel-backed startup with known investors.
Web research confirms Yidio LLC as a legitimate California-registered company founded in 2008 with physical offices in San Francisco and San Diego. The company is angel-backed with named investors and operates a streaming search and discovery platform aggregating 100+ services. Business registration is active and in good standing.
Two older Web of Trust user comments (10–15 years old) complain about misleading 'free' claims that redirect to paid services, and one mentions a rare malware report — typical user frustrations with aggregator models but not corroborated by current detections or complaints. Independent review aggregators classify the site as legitimate and reliable.
The iOS app maintains a 4.3-star rating from 3,500+ reviews; Google Play shows 3.4 stars from 27,000 reviews. an independent review aggregator displays a 4-star rating based on 4 reviews. TechCrunch covered the app in 2013 as a comprehensive streaming guide. A 2014 copyright infringement lawsuit (National Photo Group v. Yidio LLC) was settled; no ongoing fraud or scam cases found.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 2 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://yidio.com/
- 2200https://www.yidio.com/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on yidio.com and not a lookalike like y-idio.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
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Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on yidio.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- yidio.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 86/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. yidio.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YE1, expiring in 79 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- yidio.com is 18.4 years old, registered on 1/10/2008 through Squarespace Domains II LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report yidio.com as clean.
- No. yidio.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- yidio.com resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- Yes. yidio.com sits in the global top-100k on Cloudflare Radar, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. That does not automatically make it safe, but established brands almost always rank here and throwaway scam domains almost never do.
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