Who writes this
About DeepNude HK: the testing method, the scores and the money
One editor, one source of income and sources anyone can open. How a service is read, what a score means, and what this desk will not do.
In short
One editor runs this project: Venios Volden, working alone, with no company behind the site and no stake in any service on it. There is one source of income — a commission when a reader pays a service after following an advertising link. We do not generate images, we do not accept photos and we have never hosted an installer.
What that produces is a review desk rather than a product page: the ranking and the prices behind it are the output, and the rules below are how they are made.
Editorial method
Six rules this desk works by
Why the cards read the way they do, and why a score here is about documents rather than pictures.
Who writes this
Venios Volden sets the criteria, reads every page before it is published and carries the mistakes. The project is not a company and has no staff, so there is no masthead of invented job titles here — saying so plainly is more useful than a corporate profile that nobody could verify.
Where the facts come from
Only material a reader can open: the ordinances themselves, regulators’ own pages, and each service’s published terms and price list. An operator’s claim stays labelled as a claim — “input is deleted at the end of the session” is what a company writes about itself, not a fact anyone outside it has checked. Which wording each service uses is set out in how we read what a service discloses.
The legal frame
Hong Kong law decides what this site can publish and what it has to say about the services it lists: the Crimes Ordinance on intimate images, the privacy ordinance on personal data, the obscenity ordinance on what may be shown at all, and the trade descriptions rules on advertising. Each is quoted with a link to the text in the statutes we quote.
What a score means
A score counts how much a service publishes before it takes money, over seven rows adding up to ten: the tariff outside the account is worth 3, the breakdown of the charge 1.5, deadlines written as numbers 2, naming the company 1.5, the input rules 1, a balance to try 0.5 and running with nothing installed 0.5. It is not a measurement of output: no timing figures, no resolution tests and no image counts appear anywhere here, because a single desk cannot produce those in a form anyone could reproduce. The rows and their splits sit beside the ranking and the seven rows behind it.
The same discipline applies to the word free: a free tier is what a service hands over before it asks for a card, which is usually less than the landing page suggests — how we read the word free.
Where the money comes from
Some outbound buttons are advertising links: if a reader pays on the other side, this site may receive a commission, and the price they pay is the same either way. Nobody buys a place in the ranking, a higher score or the removal of a warning. Because a hidden commercial interest is itself a breach of the trade descriptions rules, the note sits beside the recommendation, not only in the full funding disclosure.
When something is wrong
Prices change, operators move and services close. Send the page, the sentence and the correct source, and it is checked against the original before anything is edited; a correction that changes the meaning is marked on the page rather than slipped in quietly. Letters go to the editor you are writing to.
Before a place is given
The seven rows a service is read on
Every one of them has to be published somewhere a reader could check it without an account, which is the whole point of the exercise.
| What is counted | Why it is read | Where it has to be published |
|---|---|---|
| Tariff outside the account | The only figure a reader can compare before paying anything. | An open price page that loads without a login. |
| Breakdown of the charge | Tiers and per-unit prices survive a change of pack; one headline number does not. | The same page, or the terms of service. |
| Deadlines given as numbers | A period with a figure in it can be quoted back; one without cannot. | The terms, a privacy notice or a refund clause. |
| Who answers | A named company is a complaint with somewhere to go, and an address makes it deliverable. | The terms, or a company page on the same domain. |
| What it accepts, in writing | Formats and size ceilings decide whether your file works at all before a credit is spent. | The upload page or the terms. |
| Something to try before paying | A welcome balance answers the quality question for nothing, which no description can. | The pricing page or the sign-up screen. |
| Nothing to install | The one row you can confirm yourself in a second. | The service itself, by opening the address. |
The deadline rows do more work than they look as though they should — twenty-four hours on an upload, seventy-two on a result, five working days on a complaint, fourteen days on a refund — and the clauses behind them are quoted one by one in the wording each service uses about your file.
The two lists
What this desk does, and what it refuses
Both lists are short, and the second one is the more useful of the two.
What we do
- Read the documents a service publishes and quote them, with the date they carry.
- Name the operator, the country and the governing law wherever a service names them.
- Keep the advertising note in the same block as the recommendation it belongs to.
- Correct a mistake against its source, and mark the page when the correction changes the meaning.
- Score a service on what it publishes, and say what it offers instead when it publishes little.
What we will not
- Publish a measured figure — speed, resolution, a count of images — that one desk cannot reproduce.
- Name or link a chat bot, however often it is asked for.
- Accept an image, a file or a request to moderate anything; there is nowhere here to send one.
- Sell a place, a score, a paragraph or the removal of a warning.
- Write about a real, identifiable person, or illustrate a page with one.
The site holds no accounts and runs no analytics, so the second list is not a promise of restraint so much as a description of what exists — what this site receives at all.
Questions
About this desk
The three readers ask most often.
Have you actually used these services?
What this desk does is compare the conditions each service publishes — the tariff, the payment routes, the deadlines, the input rules and the company behind it — and that is what every figure on the site comes from. No measured claim about output appears anywhere here, because no outsider can produce one, and no picture of a real person is put through any of these services to try.
Is this the DeepNude app?
No. The 2019 program was pulled by its own author within days. This is an independent review site that happens to cover the services now using that name; it runs no model, accepts no upload and offers nothing to install.
Why is there no author photo or biography?
Because one would be decoration. The verifiable parts of this project are the sources under each claim and the disclosure next to each advertising link, and both are available whether or not you know what the editor looks like.