Pornhub is protesting this law and others by blocking the site.

Pornhub goes dark in Arkansas after age verification law kicks in::Pornhub operator MindGeek has blocked all users in Arkansas from the site after the state’s new age verification law went into effect.

  • Ilovethebomb@lemmy.worldEnglish
    94·
    1 year ago

    Who in their right mind would expect a free porn site to go to this level of hassle?

    Or is this a puritanical measure in disguise?

    • Spacemanspliff@midwest.socialEnglish
      103·
      1 year ago

      It’s the second one. I saw article where they talked how Florida was the first to pass it, pornhub put time and money into developing what they needed to comply and saw a 90% decrease in traffic because nobody wants to hand over their ID for free porn.

      • remus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        431·
        1 year ago

        After MindGeek started complying with the Louisiana law earlier this year, the company said traffic dropped by 80 percent.

        It’s literally in the linked article lol

      • Selmafudd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        1 year ago

        Ohhhh fuck is it viewer’s age verification… I assumed it was the people in the porn… As if this is gonna stop horny kids from seeing porn

        • deong@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          yeah, the smart teenager is going to be charging the adults in his life $50 to get their porn working again.

        • IronKrill@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Pretty sure PH already requires ID for people in porn. That’s why they wiped half the uploads some years aho pending accounts verifying themselves.

    • Potato_in_my_anus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      393·
      1 year ago

      When this happened in Utah a few months ago, Google searches for VPN increased in like over 1000%.

      The best Free VPN IMO is ProtonVPN,

      • NoStressyJessie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        47·
        1 year ago

        For a general user that just wants a comprehensive google replacement, proton unlimited at $12/mo is a pretty good deal. Comes with the VPN premium and a password manager (now).

          • NoStressyJessie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            22·
            1 year ago

            And way more private by accepting Monero and requiring no registration, but they don’t have solutions for my Calandar, Cloud Drive, email with custom domain, etc. hence “drop in google replacement”.

        • EngineerGaming@feddit.nlEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          I do not understand the need to have your passwords stored somewhere in the cloud. I’d better sync them by a wire if I had several devices, not like passwords change every day. And there are cheaper VPNs out there with better reputation.

          • NoStressyJessie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            4·
            1 year ago

            It’s not like they are plaintext, and increased availability/ redundancy would be one potential reason for deciding to have a cloud synced password manager database.

            There are other solutions that you can self host or create yourself, and if that works better for you and your use case, I encourage it.

    • CoderKat@lemm.eeEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      Especially since PornHub has an excellent point. Even though they theoretically could do an ID check, the sketchier porn sites simply wouldn’t. All these laws would do is push minors to use more dangerous porn sites. They’re not going to not watch porn just because the big, law abiding site checks IDs.

    • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      1 year ago

      VPN industry lobbyists disguised as morality crusaders if you like tin foil hats as much as I do. Most likely not though, just people who feel the need to control how others spend their time and precious bodily fluids.