Hardcore Porn is in the News because a Porn Company Bought the Domain of a defunct video service

[sandstorm]

NEW: Hardcore porn is embedded all over regular-ass websites because a porn company has purchased the domain of a popular, defunct video hosting site. https://t.co/UJSMEJ5vGX
- Motherboard (@motherboard) July 22, 2021
Say you are at work and are perusing the Washington Times. Instead of a video talking about some old news, you instead see some

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[erika92]

lol tbh but also yikes

[tanglespiders]

Yeah, it's seriously fucked up but also feels like the inevitable result of the twin unstoppable internet forces of link rot and porn, and it's pretty much a laugh or scream about our future situation

[just444]

autoplay ads are the worst

[itsme_eloise]

I would turn off my adblocker for 99% of sites if they didn't have auto-play or pop-ups

[tanglespiders]

Not just ads, but also news video. Sites will play current news above stories from 10 years ago, and I do not need to hear about the infrastructure bill when I'm trying to read about the pizza bomber!

[my_moloko]

I hate that so much! If I click on an article it's because I want to read the article, not watch some stupid video.

[neuroticismette]

The original purpose for the Internet is making a comeback!!1111

Not really but this is funny

[neuroticismette]

what happened to pornhub and xtube?

[cgoblin]

that doxie link isn't porn; i'm mildly disappointed

[sluttyroyals]

….this is how i found out vidme closed down years ago.

[numbedtoe]

Right?

[evett]

ikr

[moirasrose]

i forgot all about it.