Test: FunDorado.com

Porn Sites Review: Test of the German porn portal FunDorado.com

Actually, we have almost given up the search for honest and high-quality ero­tic sites in German! In the 90s, German sex sites were extre­me­ly pep­pe­red with far­mer traps, sub­scrip­ti­on traps, bull­shit and low-quality con­tent. Due to the youth pro­tec­tion amend­ment in 2002 and the PornTube hype since 2010, num­e­rous good German ero­tic sites were dis­con­tin­ued for lack of profitability.

But there is one top dog that has pro­ven its­elf for many years. If you’­re inte­res­ted in „ero­ti­ca on the Internet“, you’­re almost bound to stumb­le across Fundorado.de. The ero­tic por­tal adver­ti­ses with mas­si­ve adver­ti­sing cam­paigns on tele­vi­si­on and the Internet (Freenet, Orion or YooFlirt.com and many more), so that one can hard­ly get around the portal.

Fundorado is a sex site that has won the Venus Award seve­ral times. The VENUS AWARD is some­thing like the German porn Oscar. The ope­ra­tor tries to mana­ge the balan­cing act bet­ween youth pro­tec­tion and por­no­gra­phy com­ple­te­ly legal­ly and wit­hout tricks. On top of that, the pro­ject is offe­red as an ero­tic flat rate at fair prices.

The first thing we noti­ce on the Fundorado – ero­tic site are the num­e­rous but­tons and texts with the word „Free“. When the two key­words ero­ti­cism and free of char­ge fall, we natu­ral­ly beco­me alert and cri­ti­cal. Especially since Fundorado is run by a German ope­ra­tor based in Hamburg. What is easi­ly fea­si­ble in other European count­ries and in the USA is actual­ly almost impos­si­ble for German web­site ope­ra­tors. Very strict youth pro­tec­tion regu­la­ti­ons stand in the way, which must first be finan­ced and cle­ver­ly solved.

In the fol­lo­wing test report, we pre­sent the ero­tic por­tal to you com­ple­te­ly neu­tral­ly and inde­pendent­ly. We write you our expe­ri­en­ces and our honest opi­ni­ons. As you are used to from Erotikseitentest.com, we do not only go into the advan­ta­ges but also into the dis­ad­van­ta­ges. We hope that you will like our review and that you will not have to buy a pig in a poke.

Opinion about the preview area of FunDorado.com

After ente­ring the inter­net address, you will land on a cen­so­red pre­view page. Since Fundorado is a German offer, you can’t expect expli­cit porn images thanks to the strict German youth pro­tec­tion law.

The upper part is taken up by a slide­show, in which the indi­vi­du­al sec­tions of Fundorado are pre­sen­ted one by one with sam­ple images and short adver­ti­sing texts. If you scroll down the page, you will be pre­sen­ted with short texts and graphics.

Clicking on one of the images or texts takes you to a regis­tra­ti­on form. An excep­ti­on is the menu at the top. If you click on one of the links here, you get a deeper insight into the porn pro­ject. On the right, there is a large adver­ti­sing ban­ner that draws atten­ti­on to a flat rate for 0 Euros

At the bot­tom of the porn page there are various links to legal con­tent, such as imprint, data pro­tec­tion and others, which every German web­site must fulfill.

The pre­view area cor­re­sponds so far to the stan­dard of the indus­try and con­ta­ins, howe­ver, not­hing out of the ordi­na­ry. But somehow, it is not real­ly 100% pos­si­ble to ima­gi­ne what Fundorado is exact­ly.

Rating of the porn sites registration

You can sign up by cli­cking on one of the pic­tures – or on the top-right of the home­page by cli­cking on the but­ton „Become a member“.

At the begin­ning of the regis­tra­ti­on, you have to choo­se a user­na­me and a pass­word. After that, some per­so­nal details such as first and last name, coun­try and date of birth have to be ente­red. In addi­ti­on to Germany, Austria and Switzerland are also available for selection.

Below that comes the sel­ec­tion of packa­ges and here it turns out that free just is not equal to free. Fundorado costs a month­ly fee!
There are three regu­lar packages

• Basic for 19.95 EUR monthly
• Gold for 12,95 EUR monthly
• Platinum (9,95 EUR month­ly) with dif­fe­rent functionalities.

Based on the cho­sen tariff, the month­ly price is redu­ced. It’s worth taking your time to read the fine print. And bewa­re: The Platinum tariff is pre­sel­ec­ted and is char­ged at 238.80 EUR! It offers com­ple­te access to all areas of Fundorado.

In addi­ti­on, one finds also a trial tariff (named Schnupper), which costs other­wi­se 4.95 EUR and here as adver­ti­se­ment even­ly for the „free“ ent­rance must hold out. With this rate, you get a three-week trial access, which cor­re­sponds to the basic rate. The catch is that the rate must be can­ce­led within the first seven days. Otherwise, it will be trans­fer­red to the basic rate for which a char­ge is made.

Below this is a field in which you can enter a vou­ch­er code to recei­ve an addi­tio­nal discount.

In the next field, you can sel­ect the pay­ment method. You can choo­se bet­ween direct debit and cre­dit card. If you sel­ect the direct debit pay­ment method, various fields will open for you to enter your account details. Once you have com­ple­ted this point, you can finish the order by cli­cking on „Complete regis­tra­ti­on with costs“.

If you choo­se „Credit card“ as a pay­ment opti­on, you have to click on the „Next“ but­ton to enter the cre­dit card data on the second page.

Once the regis­tra­ti­on is com­ple­te, you will recei­ve a con­fir­ma­ti­on email with all the rele­vant data. Now you can alre­a­dy log in, but you don’t get to see any con­tent yet! Now the iden­ti­ty check, which is obli­ga­to­ry in Germany, must be completed.

Age verification at Fundorado:

Despite pay­ing, you can’t get around the paren­tal con­trol check and it reads: „You have suc­cessful­ly log­ged in. In order to be able to use all con­tent, plea­se quick­ly con­firm that you are of age. There are various opti­ons available to you for this pur­po­se.„

If you click on the incon­spi­cuous link „Identity Check“, a pop-up win­dow opens for a Schufa query. If you don’t want more data to be coll­ec­ted about you than is alre­a­dy the case, you should con­sider one of the alter­na­ti­ve opti­ons. One clicks on the link „NO LUST“.

This opens a page „Do the age check here“. The alter­na­ti­ves offe­red are Postident, X‑Check, exis­ting cus­to­mer or a web­cam check. We have cho­sen the web­cam check, becau­se it is the fas­test of the available options 

To do this, you turn on the web­cam and start a new chat. An employee of Fundorado asked us to hold the front and back of the ID card in front of the came­ra and a few seconds later the access was activated.

Test – Review Member area

After the some­what awk­ward regis­tra­ti­on pro­cess, we final­ly found our­sel­ves in the mem­ber area and star­ted to explo­re. In the upper part we find the menu bar alre­a­dy known from the pre­view area. For us, the menu items Live Cams, Community, Videos, Pictures and Private are enab­led. In addi­ti­on, there are menu items for Reality, Extras and 1:1 Cam.

The large area below is framed by ads from the part­ner net­work and chan­ges its con­tent depen­ding on the menu item selected.

Live Cams:

The live cams are dis­play­ed unsor­ted. The only clue about the qua­li­ty you get from the ratings under the pic­tures. If you click on a thumb­nail, the cor­re­spon­ding page is cal­led to inter­act with the lady.

The women are most­ly pret­ty to very pret­ty. The age seems to be bet­ween 19 to 40. Of cour­se, there are out­liers up and down in terms of appearance and age.

The trans­mis­si­on qua­li­ty is quite good and the images also arri­ve quick­ly wit­hout any judder.

Community:

The com­mu­ni­ty sec­tion is a bit clut­te­red for my taste and looks a bit like it was added later. This is also indi­ca­ted by the fact that a new win­dow opens.

Here you can find a num­ber of other vide­os of various women. We can­not say whe­ther these are actual­ly users. However, the pic­tu­re and sound qua­li­ty is part­ly not the best, so we do not want to exclude it.

Video store:

The video libra­ry left a split impres­si­on. There are many, many films. But the qua­li­ty is very varia­ble. This appli­es to both the qua­li­ty of the pic­tu­re and the sound as well as the qua­li­ty of the actors and actres­ses. After all, there are some high­lights to be found in the video store, in addi­ti­on to many cheap productions.

Our sub­jec­ti­ve impres­si­on is also sup­port­ed by the user ratings. Many porn movies have recei­ved only 3 out of 5 stars.

A modern HTML5 play­er is used as the video play­er, which is also com­pa­ti­ble with mobi­le devices. Unfortunately, it is not pos­si­ble to down­load the movies. However, the movies can be saved via a screen cap­tu­re soft­ware such as CamStudio. However, since the film or scene must be play­ed back com­ple­te­ly, it is a time-consuming way. The Firefox brow­ser plug­in Ant Video Downloader does not work.

Above the pre­view images are some but­tons, with which the films can be sor­ted, among other things, accor­ding to the newest or best rated. In addi­ti­on, the cate­go­ries can be sel­ec­ted here or a sel­ec­tion can be made accor­ding to pro­duc­tion companies.

A spe­cial high­light is hid­den behind the Pornstars but­ton. If you open this but­ton, you will find a whole series of names that read like a Who’s Who of the inter­na­tio­nal porn scene.

Pictures:

The „Pictures“ sec­tion con­ta­ins, as the name sug­gests, various pic­tu­re gal­le­ries. Unfortunately, the divi­si­on is not as com­for­ta­ble as in the video libra­ry. There is only a list on the left, with which the pic­tu­re series can be rough­ly nar­ro­wed down and under which key­words the series names are lis­ted.

The series are exclu­si­ve­ly glos­sy pro­duc­tions, which you can also see that it took some effort to record them.

Private:

Some vide­os can also be found here, wher­eby the qua­li­ty is also very fluc­tua­ting. The spe­cial fea­ture here is that the films are play­ed in sce­nes one after the other. Unfortunately, there is no opti­on to jump direct­ly to a scene.

You can see from the models that they are at least not pro­fes­sio­nal actres­ses. And the qua­li­ty of the pic­tu­re and sound is also very varia­ble here.

Reality series:

The porn indus­try does­n’t stop at rea­li­ty series eit­her. However, the basic tariff does not allow access to this area. You only get to see a short clip of the rela­tively few sce­nes. After that, the screen chan­ges and prompts you to char­ge for a user account.

Of cour­se, there is no need to men­ti­on that these are not real­ly real-life stories.

Opinions on page layout & design

The design takes a litt­le get­ting used to. Fundorado adver­ti­ses its­elf with the sub­tit­le „The horny pur­ple“, but I per­so­nal­ly find the color sche­me a bit annoy­ing. But that is cer­tain­ly a mat­ter of taste.

On the posi­ti­ve side, the page lay­out remains the same in most cate­go­ries. Only when you switch to the com­mu­ni­ty area, a new win­dow opens. And here the lay­out is a bit confusing.

What is real­ly annoy­ing is that the right mouse but­ton is locked, which rest­ricts the ope­ra­ti­on somewhat.

The online sex por­tal offers an enorm­ous range of fea­tures, but the navi­ga­ti­on struc­tu­re suf­fers tre­men­dous­ly. As a new­co­mer, you have to get used to the inter­face for a good 10 minu­tes to get to your desi­red destinations.

Surprisingly, the cur­rent lay­out con­forms to the smart­phone and tablet-friendly „Responsive Design“. Playing the movies is pos­si­ble on the iPad wit­hout any problems.

Experience with subscription cancellation

Although Fundorado has done many things right, there is now a point deduc­tion for the can­cel­la­ti­on. Despite inten­si­ve search, we found neither in the con­fir­ma­ti­on email, nor on the Fundorado pages the pos­si­bi­li­ty for a cancellation.

The opti­on to can­cel we found then rather by chan­ce after we cli­cked on the menu item „Service & Help“. Here, various ques­ti­ons about Fundorado should actual­ly be cla­ri­fied, but the menu item „My mem­ber­ship“ brings you a bit clo­ser to the cancellation.

Among the ques­ti­ons now dis­play­ed is the ques­ti­on, „How can I can­cel my mem­ber­ship“. If one clicks on it, a text is indi­ca­ted, which among other things, also the link „indi­vi­du­al noti­ce code pro­vi­de“. After cli­cking on it, one is redi­rec­ted to a page that is sup­po­sed to dis­cou­ra­ge one from can­ce­ling again. Once you have made up your mind, you have to click on the but­ton with the descrip­ti­ve title „Mir ist nicht mehr zu hel­fen“ („I can’t be helped“).

An input form opens, where you should enter your user­na­me and pass­word. After con­fir­ming it, a page opens where you should spe­ci­fy your reason for can­cel­la­ti­on. We choo­se: „I am satis­fied, but I want to pay my regu­lar fees“. Now we are offe­red to chat with a sup­port repre­sen­ta­ti­ve. But we click on „Thanks for the info, but this is not inte­res­t­ing for me“.

One must know exactly „how“ to cancel

On the fol­lo­wing page one has to con­firm 5 check­bo­xes that one is aware that one loses all paid „rea­li­ty epi­so­des“, one’s „bonus“, one’s book­mark­ed con­tent, one’s fri­ends lists and that one is soon a „sil­ver mem­ber“. Somewhat annoy­ed, you then click on „I am aware of the con­se­quen­ces and agree“.

And now comes the kicker! On the fol­lo­wing page it says: „Send us your let­ter of can­cel­la­ti­on by mail“. One finds after the fol­lo­wing information 

If you no lon­ger wish to be a mem­ber, plea­se send your noti­ce of can­cel­la­ti­on in accordance with our Terms and Conditions with the fol­lo­wing data: XXXX by mail to this address: XXXX An e‑mail is not suf­fi­ci­ent for this purpose.

Below you will find two but­tons „to print ver­si­on“ „I’m not crazy – I want to stay.“

You should serious­ly print out the form, put it in an enve­lo­pe, stick a stamp on it, write an address on it and drive to the post office?!?!

Of cour­se, this is a sheer mockery! You can do ever­y­thing online: sign up, pay, Schufa check, web­cam age veri­fi­ca­ti­on, chat, watch porn and who knows, but you have to can­cel offline?

The thought ari­ses whe­ther they are inten­tio­nal­ly try­ing to drag out the one-month can­cel­la­ti­on peri­od so that you stay a month longer.

Review verdict & conclusion of the FunDorado.com test report

Fundorado is defi­ni­te­ly one of the lar­gest and most com­pre­hen­si­ve porn sites in the German-speaking world! Several thousand porn movies of all gen­res are offe­red for a real­ly cheap month­ly flat rate (in the sense of a flat rate).

Fortunately, these are main­ly German porn movies from well-known German porn labels. Thus, you can also find almost all German porn stars! Absolutely prai­se­wor­t­hy are the in-house, German-language rea­li­ty series (part­ly in HD qua­li­ty), which, howe­ver, cost extra money.

Surprisingly, num­e­rous web­cams and live­cam chats with real­ly beau­tiful girls are com­ple­te­ly included in the price. The com­mu­ni­ty func­tion is also exciting.

Although the regis­tra­ti­on is rela­tively easy, the neces­sa­ry age check slows down the initi­al eupho­ria con­sider­a­b­ly. Nevertheless, the imple­men­ta­ti­on of German youth pro­tec­tion laws is well thought out and can be over­co­me by the uncom­pli­ca­ted SCHUFA query or the web­cam check. However, the poten­ti­al new cus­to­mer should be pre­pared for the fact that the acti­va­ti­on can take a litt­le lon­ger when booking.

The ultimate sex site for German porn

The site its­elf is by and large well struc­tu­red, alt­hough it could some­ti­mes be a bit clea­rer. This is due to the extre­me­ly large scope of ser­vices that the deve­lo­pers had to somehow reconcile.

The pic­tu­re and video qua­li­ty is very fluc­tua­ting. What we miss in 2014 is porn in HD qua­li­ty. American and Dutch porn por­tals can do that much better!

We do not like the hid­den can­cel­la­ti­on opti­on at all and that the cus­to­mer is depri­ved of the pos­si­bi­li­ty to down­load movies and pic­tures by all tech­ni­cal means.

All in all, Fundorado offers a lot for the money. In our opi­ni­on, it is final­ly a porn site where it is worth being a mem­ber for seve­ral months. If you like German and varied ero­tic movies, Fundorado’s porn flat­rate is real­ly very good for you!

Website Information
Country of operator:	Germany
Language:	German
Cost:	€19.95 / month (sub­scrip­ti­on)
	€12.95 / 12 months
	€9.95 / 24 months
Rebilling:	yes
Test / Demo – Access:	yes
Payment methods:	Credit card, direct debit
Billing:	FunDorado Hamburg
Member manage­ment:	no
Youth pro­tec­tion filter:	yes
Download limit:	no
Updates:	daily
Cross-selling pre­sel­ec­ted:	no