Why this one.
There are a lot of link-in-bio services and most of them work fine. dreaded.lol is built on a few decisions that the usual ones are not, and those decisions are the whole reason to pick it.
One payment, not a subscription
Platinum is $7.99 once and the account keeps it permanently, including features added to the tier later. The usual model charges every month forever and takes your page back down to a free tier the moment a card fails. We keep no card on file, so there is nothing to lapse and nothing to cancel.
The free tier is the product, not a demo
69 of our 75 features are free, most at full strength rather than a crippled version. The common pattern is to put every effect, font and layout worth having behind the paywall and leave the free tier as an advert. Only six things here are genuinely paid-only; the rest of Platinum is bigger numbers.
A view counter that means something
Most services count a page load. That makes the number trivial to inflate and therefore worthless. Every render here issues a short-lived signed token, and a view only counts with real dwell time, real interaction and a browser that behaves like one. Blocked traffic is still recorded, so you can see exactly what was thrown away.
No ads, no trackers, no data sale
There are no advertising cookies, no third-party analytics and no pixels anywhere on the service. We count views ourselves and never share them. The $7.99 is the whole business model, which is precisely why the service does not need to monetise you.
You can leave whenever you want
Everything we hold about you downloads as JSON from your account page, your uploads stay downloadable, and deleting your account is one button and immediate rather than a 30-day grace period. An alias keeps your old name redirecting so your links do not rot.
Security that is written down
Passwords are hashed with scrypt, sessions are opaque tokens stored hashed and revocable per device, every write needs a CSRF token and a same-origin request, and uploads are verified against their real file signature. Two-factor auth is on the free plan. It is all set out in the terms and privacy policy rather than implied.
Side by side.
The right-hand column describes the pattern common to subscription link-in-bio services as a category. Every service is different and they do change their terms, so check the current details of anything you are comparing against before you decide.
Try it without paying.
The free plan is not a trial and it does not expire. If you never upgrade, your page keeps working exactly as it is.
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