It shows that to them cuz that 77% are actually using VPNs
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FTFY
There you go. Of course they just use a VPN.
Fk ID/age verification. Not just on this site but just in general.
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See how fucking easy that is?
My brother in Christ, there are more consequential things to have a bee in your bonnet about than people who don't fully type out swear words.
Fucking hell indeed. 🤣 There are more urgent issues on our world currently.
100%, but I think some of us are like "Why are you self-censoring? This isn't TikTok!" Let's not use seggs* and PDF files.
*Unless we're talking about sexy eggs for some reason. Sorry, "seggzy eggs."
Age check is very harming for your privacy. The whole EU want to go into this direction and it worries me a lot.
Just not pornhub but also social media sites etc. The reason why I don't like it at all is that you once again need to share data with parties you don't want to give them data. Especially not your passport.
It's a matter of time before data will be leaked online after a random data breach.
Edit: I also want to add, it's also about full control. They can reject you from websites. And websites can be rejected from this system.
The way EU is planning on implementing it is seemingly rather okay on the privacy side.
Basic idea is that instead of sending your actual ID to every random shady website, which is fucking stupid and you should never ever do, you verify your ID once to a trusted processor, and the websites only receive a simple "Is adult: yes/no" answer connected to a randomised ID from them.
Combine that with one additional hop between the website and processor and you eliminate the processor even knowing what websites you requested the check for, and therefore the risk of a data leak is minimal.
I like how this approach gets called "okay on the privacy side" and just assumes you're logged in to everything. In case you missed it, the subject matter here is browsing porn, a vast majority of people aren't logging in at all with any service when they watch porn.
It doesn't. The website would ask for an id check, you would generate it on the processor side and give the randomized ID to the site so it could go check it's valid and let you through. It can be used to verify an account permanently but without one, it would kinda act like a temporary 2FA code.
I'm glad to hear this. Some weeks ago I was pondering how to do age checks anonymously and this was pretty much the idea I came up with. It just makes a lot more sense because it does what you want without revealing anything private.
Edit: had a brain fart and wrote unanimously instead of anonymously
Yeah, bit annoyed that Bandcamp is now asking for ID. Just going to have to abandon it when it becomes mandatory
What's the number on VPN purchases? 😅
I do want to see if there was 77% increase next country over
I'm sure UK citizens can find porn without having to necessarily resort to VPNs, they just left Pornhub because they're applying the laws
I can't imagine the alternative be less stretchy compared to Pornhub, not that Pornhub isn't a sketchy site in the first place
What I picture:
*Mullvad employee opens the company mailbox, and envelopes full of cash come pouring out.*
Anecdotally, ProtonVPN's servers have had a jump in usage percentage since this shit started, particularly in the Netherlands.
The figure I remember was like +1600% but now I can’t remember if I’m making that up
It's almost like people are going on smaller sites that arnt covered by the online safety act and are alot more unregulated and sketchy and extreme
as someone who used to work in the adult entertainment industry years and years ago Manwin/Pornhub was always known as the "McDonalds of Porn". You go there because you don't know any better and just want a quick session.
If you want niche stuff, truly amateur stuff, you'll go else where. So you're not wrong, there are a lot more places that simply ignore these rules. For the vast majority as long as they're following 2257 rules they couldn't give a rats ass about any other countries rules. Why? because most of the big payment processors i.e. places like CCBill, are in the US so it's more important to play by the US' rules than anywhere else so Affiliates and what have you can continue to be paid.
Interesting information, thank you for sharing
i'll have to find it, but there's a fascinating journalistic podcast about how pornhub's position as the tech giant of the porn industry happened effectively the same as every tech giant: not as a labor of love to advance something, but as a cold blooded disruption of a market to establish a new oligarchic overlord of a market sector. pornhub's position as an invasive species in the sex work ecosystem has made sex work far less humane than it was before. moreover, sex workers, given their complete lack of societal protection given our legal criminalization of their profession, are more vulnerable to the whims of a modern robber baron
As someone who witnessed them eating up ALL their competition first hand, you're right. They bought EVERYONE out. in my time in the adult industry I worked for 3 separate companies and Manwin bought them all. TWICE I was offered a job by them and to move to Montreal after being laid off from two companies that they bought and both times I turned them down simply because of their reputation within the industry.
One company I worked for was named Twistys/Pink Visual based in Toronto and they were bought by Manwin. A few people I know decided to move to Montreal to work at pornhub since they worked on Gaytube, SexTube, TrannyTube, etc and would be in charge of those sites at pornhub. They all moved back to Toronto within the spawn of a few months because it was a horrible place to work. Pornhub has always presented itself online as cool and hip to modern trends but behind the scenes it's anything but. I mean all the cool statistics and stuff they constantly present was built on the back of a guy from Tucson Arizona that worked for another porn company there that they bought. They promptly fired him after he essentially taught them his tools. Dude moved to Montreal from Arizona and everything. uprooted his family to move to Canada. He lasted maybe a year.
There was also a point where the adult actors were looking to unionize. It was largely spear headed by Sasha Grey. Manwin/Pornhub in part was very quick to squash that.
Based on 404media's coverage of Girls Do Porn, I feel like PornHub can hardly be described as not being "unregulated and sketchy and extreme".
Long story short, PornHub was knowingly cooperating with a porn producer operating on the basis of institutionalized rape for years. Lots of women have committed suicide in the wake. The ringleader of the network PornHub cooperated with was recently sentenced to 27 years in prison. I'm of the personal belief that PornHub executives should have been brought in to keep him company—they are as guilty as anyone in this. I really doubt that Girls Do Porn is a unique story in anything else than the fact that it ended up before the courts.
That's a very fair thing to bring up, I guess what I should have meant is pornhub is more regulated relative to smaller niche sites but I should of also still mentioned it's sketchyness, thanks for mentioning this
That or using a VPN
I myself am a proud Canadian on the internet
Thats the goal. These weirdos passing the laws are anti porn, not pro child
Or torrents. If piracy's on the rise (again) as a replacement for streaming, you can sure as hell bet that it was already replacing sites like PornHub way before that.
Traffic, however, stayed the same.
I would be interested to know if Irish and French traffic is up a comparative amount.
I think Pornhub is blocked in France altogether
I would think that the percentage of people who do not watch porn, but have access to it, is a very small number. This is about moral shame and control. Don't buy into it...there is nothing morally wrong with masturbation. The sexual drive in an animal is natural. Let your freak flag fly.
Who'd have guessed that teens alone were keeping the porn industry alive?
@sabreW4K3 this might sound like self interest, but wouldn't there be more frustrated guys walking about now?