Football fans worldwide stream the Super Bowl, many illegally, making it easy for unsafe sites to collect your personal data and install malware.
If you don’t have cable, but you want to see the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs fight it out in this year’s Super Bowl, you may find yourself among the millions of people worldwide seeking to stream the Big Game by any means possible.
Many viewers searching for Super Bowl livestreams will land on illegal sites seeking to steal data and install malware—a dark side to this otherwise festive event.
Last year, an estimated 7.7 million searched for “Super Bowl stream,” according to new data from VPNOverview. In total, the game attracted 99 million viewers (beyond just streamers), with 103 million tuning in for the halftime show. This year, search volume will likely be even higher. Beyond the game, viewers will want to catch Rihanna’s halftime show, her first major performance since her 2016 tour. Born in Barbados, she has among the largest international fanbases of any artist.
While football is largely an American sport, potential streamers of the Super Bowl are all over the globe. Canada, home to the CFL (short for Canadian Football League), edged out the US as the country with the most stream searches on a per-capita basis.
