Those who first encountered "Skotobaza" will be unpleasantly surprised or even outraged - such a repulsive name is given to a site that stores millions of private photos of Vkontakte users. What this resource hides in itself and whether it is possible to get access to its database - further.
What is Cattle Depot
The Cattle Depot resource, which has collected about 107 million compromising user photos on its servers, is far from innovative. Even 15 years ago, "LiveJournal" began to publish "for fun" frankly unsuccessful photos posted by users. "Skotobaza" was guided (yes, in the past tense - today the site cannot be found in a search engine, since it is closed by Rospotrebnadzor) on the content of the social network "Vkontakte".
It should be noted right away: if you posted a photo in an album with the lock "Only I can see", such an image cannot appear in the Cattle Depot. But if you sent the image to the interlocutor, to a closed community, ina photo album visible only to friends or a limited group of people, then it is possible that it was already in the possession of this dubious resource.
Many, having learned what "Skotobaza" is, resorted to this resource to learn something personal about their acquaintances, enemies, ill-wishers, to check their soul mate. The site, I must say, skillfully cashed in on careless users who sent too personal photos to whom they didn’t need and where they didn’t need to. For a bribe in the amount of 490 rubles, you could not only permanently delete your photos from the Cattle Base archives, but also get some kind of guarantee that you would no longer be featured on this resource.
"Skotobaza": analogues
As already mentioned, the site was shut down for obvious reasons. "Skotobaza" tried to recover by moving to other domains, but in vain - access to them was also blocked. The resource does not have a "mirror" either.
To some extent, the analog of the site was a similar resource "Burned", but it is also no longer functional. The same fate overtook the smaller copy of Poiskvk. Of course, if you “surf” on Odnoklassniki, Vkontakte, Instagram, Facebook, you can find closed groups and communities where users post personal and unsuccessful photos of their random interlocutors and acquaintances (the same once popular groups "Chickens" and "Roosters" in every city).
Of course, the scope resource"Cattle depots" will not appear instantly - it takes a lot of time at least to accumulate such an archive.
Bypass the blocking of "Cattle Depot"
After access to the resource was closed, a lot of life hacks like "Cattle depot" appeared on the network: blocking bypass". It is believed that it is possible to see the photo database by hiding your IP address, that is, the location of yourself and your gadget, since Rospotrebnadzor is authorized to block access only to Russians. This can be done in two simple ways:
- Through the browser "Opera", versions not older than September 2016. This development is good because it has a built-in VPN - a private virtual network that allows you not to advertise the actions of the PC owner who wants to get to the Cattle Depot website. The bypass is done like this: go to "Settings" (this can be done by pressing the "CTRL + F12" buttons), find "Security", and in it the "VPN" section. Activate the mode and try to search for the scandalous resource.
- Through anonymizer sites. Click, if necessary, "Hide me" and enter: skotobaza.org. The resource should redirect you to an address. There is a drawback, and it is as follows: it is not so easy to find a free anonymizer on the Web in order to get into the archive of the Cattle Depot website.
Bypassing the lock in this way can be quickly carried out using these operations.
How to use Cattle Depot
Having learned about the Cattle Depot, many will want to check if they themselves or their relatives andfriends on this site. It is very simple to do this: enter the desired Vkontakte user ID in the window on the main page. If he is present in this dubious database, the system will redirect you to his photo archive.
If you believe the words of some users, then in 2017 it became impossible to enter the Cattle Depot, as its creators deleted the resource, which, apparently, no longer brings them their former profit.
How else can you find a user's photo
Having learned what "Skotobaza" is, you probably want to use less dubious services to search for a person and his photo:
- Yandex. People system: enter your first and last name in the search engine.
- Find Face service: people are searched by photo - the system recognizes the face in the image and offers profiles of similar people on social networks.
- Search by image in "Google" (right-click on a photo - "Search for a picture in Google"): the system will search for a similar image not only in social networks, but throughout the Web. If the photo is not in the network, then drag its icon to the browser window and start searching.
- Similarly, you can use "Search by image" "Yandex": click on the camera icon near the main line.
- Intelligent search engine "Nigma. Ru", using the results of both "Google" and "Yandex".
What is "Skotobaza" in a nutshell - scandalousa resource that has accumulated a large collection of private photos of VK users. If you want to find a person or photo on the Web, it is much more appropriate to use legal search engines for this.
