along_the_road@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org · 6 months agoPornhub to leave five more states over age-verification lawswww.engadget.comexternal-linkmessage-square99fedilinkarrow-up1215arrow-down10
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minus-squareDarkassassin07@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up62·6 months agoThe middle-man provides plausible deniability in this case. PornHub can genuinely say they don’t see connections from age-verification states atm. That stops being true if they host the VPN, making them aware of actual client locations.
minus-squareNeato@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 months agoWonder if a parent company could own them both.
minus-squarelimerod@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up17·6 months agoThat would be a liability, and they would go after the parent company crying foul play.
The middle-man provides plausible deniability in this case. PornHub can genuinely say they don’t see connections from age-verification states atm. That stops being true if they host the VPN, making them aware of actual client locations.
Wonder if a parent company could own them both.
That would be a liability, and they would go after the parent company crying foul play.