Last updated: May 2026. Safety analysis based on Mozilla Privacy Not Included assessment, Trustpilot data, and official platform privacy policy.
Is CrushOn AI Safe? Privacy, Security & Trust Analysis
The operational answer and the privacy answer to this question are different. Running CrushOn AI on your device is operationally safe — no malware has been identified, no major breach has been reported. The privacy answer is more complicated: the Mozilla Foundation's Privacy Not Included project gave CrushOn AI their WARNING label, the worst outcome in their rating system. Those two answers need to coexist in your risk assessment.
YMYL notice: This analysis covers privacy practices with direct implications for user data security and personal wellbeing. All third-party claims are sourced from documented assessments.
CrushOn AI Safety Overview
CrushOn AI is operated by Peekaboo Tech Inc., a Delaware-registered company headquartered in San Francisco. The platform launched in 2023 and currently serves over 3 million monthly active users. SSL/TLS encryption protects data in transit, and no public data breach involving CrushOn AI has been reported as of May 2026.
The platform is not safe in the privacy sense. Mozilla's independent audit identified a data collection profile that goes substantially beyond what an entertainment platform requires. The combination of health data collection, biometric data, 45 active trackers, and unconfirmed encryption at rest creates a risk profile that informed users should evaluate before creating an account and especially before having conversations of a personal nature.
The Trustpilot signal adds a different dimension: 2.1/5 stars with 13 of 14 reviews at 1 star reflects significant user dissatisfaction that, while primarily about AI quality rather than safety, signals a platform where multiple commitments — quality, consistency, responsiveness — are not consistently met.
What Mozilla Found
Mozilla's Privacy Not Included is an independent consumer privacy research project run by the Mozilla Foundation. They review products by examining privacy policies, testing network behavior, and attempting to verify stated security practices. Their WARNING label is the worst outcome — applied when a product's practices are considered seriously deficient.
For CrushOn AI, the documented findings were specific and detailed rather than general.
The network audit found 45 trackers loading within the first minute of use, including Google DoubleClick — an advertising tracker not typically associated with the baseline operation of a chat application. Forty-five trackers in the first minute is a high load even for advertising-supported services. It suggests a data collection architecture that extends well beyond what is needed to operate the platform.
The privacy policy review found health data referenced 23 times, covering categories that include mental health conditions and treatment, physical health conditions and medications, gender-affirming care, and reproductive and sexual health information. For a platform designed around intimate personal conversations, the collection of health information — and its use for commercial and business purposes — represents a significant privacy exposure for users who engage authentically in those conversations.
Biometric data collection is separately documented: face images, keystroke patterns, and voice recordings. These are categories of data with specific legal protections in many jurisdictions and with persistent identification potential that outlasts any individual conversation.
Mozilla could not confirm encryption at rest — meaning the organization conducting the audit could not verify that data stored on CrushOn AI's servers is encrypted. This is a meaningful gap. Without confirmed encryption at rest, a breach of CrushOn AI's stored data would expose unencrypted health information, biometric data, conversation content, and account details.
Data Collection Practices
The breadth of data CrushOn AI collects is notable. The privacy policy discloses collection across audio and visual data, contact information, device and network data, financial data, location data, identity information, transaction history, and the chat content itself.
The data is used in three categories: AI model training (conversations improve the platform's models), commercial purposes (advertising, marketing, social media engagement), and general business operation. It is shared with affiliated companies within the Peekaboo Tech group — including Peekaboo Tech Ltd., Inc., and Game Ltd. — as well as with third-party vendors and advertising partners.
The health data dimension deserves particular attention given the platform's use case. An AI companion chatbot is a context where users naturally discuss mental health, relationship dynamics, personal experiences, and sensitive life circumstances. Those disclosures become health data under CrushOn AI's policy, and that data is used for commercial purposes. This dynamic — intimate conversation monetized as commercial data — is the core privacy concern for this platform's specific use case.
Age Verification
CrushOn AI verifies user age through a single checkbox: "I confirm I am 18 or older." No identity document, no credit card verification, no third-party age verification service. A motivated minor can create an account by checking a box.
This has been flagged by FindMyKids, a parental monitoring organization, as inadequate for a platform hosting NSFW content. It is also an industry-wide issue — very few NSFW AI platforms implement meaningful age verification — but CrushOn AI's approach is at the minimal end of the scale. Parents of teenagers should be aware that this platform's NSFW content is not meaningfully gated against underage access.
Trustpilot Reviews
CrushOn AI holds a Trustpilot rating of 2.1 out of 5 stars, with 13 of 14 reviews at 1 star as of May 2026. The sample size is small, limiting statistical confidence, but the pattern is unusually consistent.
The dominant complaint type is AI quality failure rather than security or privacy: AI described as producing "randomly generated nonsense," ignoring character specifications, abandoning defined character behaviors within a few messages, and delivering poor value on Premium and Deluxe tiers. A secondary complaint pattern involves customer support responsiveness.
The privacy and safety implications of the review data are indirect but relevant. A platform that consistently underdelivers on its core product commitments may also be less rigorous about operational commitments including data handling, support responsiveness, and privacy practice maintenance. The review pattern suggests a company that has not yet matched its operational performance to its commercial success.
How to Protect Yourself on CrushOn AI
For users who decide to use the platform, these precautions meaningfully reduce the risk exposure:
Using a burner email address is the most important single step. Your primary email is linked to your identity across dozens of services — using a throwaway email breaks that link for CrushOn AI specifically. ProtonMail and temporary email services work for this purpose.
Enabling a VPN reduces your IP address exposure to CrushOn AI and its tracker network. The 45 trackers detected by Mozilla use IP addresses as part of their cross-site tracking infrastructure. A VPN limits the accuracy and longevity of that tracking.
Avoiding real personal information in conversations treats the chat content as potentially accessible to third parties — which CrushOn AI's data practices suggest it effectively is. Do not use your real name, location, workplace, age, or health details in chat sessions. The platform describes this content as used for AI training and commercial purposes.
Disabling location permissions removes one data category the platform collects. When the app requests location access, decline. The web app at crushon.ai can be used without any location permission being granted.
Using the web app rather than the mobile app reduces device permission exposure. The web version does not inherently receive camera, microphone, contact, or location access unless you explicitly grant it. The mobile app requests these permissions by default as part of installation.
When you are finished with the platform, requesting account deletion stops ongoing data accumulation. The process takes approximately 48 hours and is initiated through account settings. Following account deletion, a data deletion request submitted to support@crushon.ai may be used to request removal of stored data.
Has CrushOn AI Been Hacked?
No major breach involving CrushOn AI has been publicly reported as of May 2026. The platform does not appear in major breach notification databases. This is the honest answer to the direct question.
The honest context alongside it: Mozilla's inability to confirm encryption at rest means the security posture of stored data is unknown. A breach affecting unencrypted stored data — containing health information, biometric data, conversation content, and account credentials — would be more damaging than a breach of encrypted data. The absence of a reported breach does not confirm security; it confirms that no breach has been publicly disclosed.
Our Safety Verdict
CrushOn AI is operationally safe to run. It is not a platform to approach with an expectation of strong privacy protection. The Mozilla WARNING label reflects documented practices, not speculation.
Users with significant concerns about health data, biometric data, or behavioral data being used commercially should consider alternatives with better privacy records. Kindroid AI and Character.AI have cleaner documented privacy profiles than CrushOn AI. See our alternatives guide for a broader comparison.
For users who proceed: apply the precautions above, use a burner email and VPN, and treat every conversation as potentially accessible to third parties. With that framework, the platform's risks are somewhat manageable. Without it, the exposure is more substantial than most users realize at signup.
For the full platform review, see our CrushOn AI review. For the free tier, see our free guide.
Frequently Asked Questions
CrushOn AI's privacy policy discloses that data is used for "commercial purposes" and shared with advertising partners and affiliated companies within the Peekaboo Tech group. While the policy does not use the explicit language of "selling" data, the described commercial use of conversation content, health data, and behavioral data for advertising purposes functionally constitutes commercial data monetization. Reviewing the current privacy policy at crushon.ai is the most direct way to understand the current terms.
Yes. Account deletion is initiated through your account settings. The process takes approximately 48 hours to complete and is not instantaneous. After account deletion, you can contact support@crushon.ai to request deletion of stored data. The manual nature of the process means you should initiate deletion when you are certain you are done with the platform rather than expecting immediate removal.
CrushOn AI is an adult platform with age verification limited to a self-reported checkbox. It is not safe for minors — not because of operational risk to a device but because the platform hosts NSFW content accessible behind a trivially bypassable age check. Parents should be aware that technical restrictions are minimal. FindMyKids has specifically flagged CrushOn AI's age verification as inadequate.
Yes, explicitly per their privacy policy. Conversation data is used for AI model training and commercial purposes. This is common across AI platforms but particularly significant for a platform where users are likely to have sensitive personal conversations. The practical implication is that chat content — including anything personal or sensitive disclosed in conversation — may be retained and processed for purposes beyond your immediate session.
No publicly reported breach involving CrushOn AI has occurred as of May 2026. However, Mozilla's independent audit could not confirm that stored data is encrypted at rest, meaning the security of data-at-rest cannot be independently verified. The absence of a reported breach is a positive signal but not a security guarantee given the unconfirmed encryption status.