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Tech NewsI Hope PayPal’s Dick Falls Off
PayPal wages its years-long war on sex work, announcing yesterday that it has officially refused to process payments made through Pornhub to over 100,000 models. The reason, as per usual, is violation of its “sexually-oriented goods” clause in the terms of service agreement. The cumulative effect of financial discrimination, by banks and payment processors, is … Continued
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Tech NewsYou Know How This All Ends, Don’t You?
Brands—they’re just like us, only thirstier. Just last night, Pornhub sent out a press release claiming it was “extremely interested” in buying Tumblr, the distressed blogging platform Verizon is reportedly looking to unload. TechCrunch explained why this is a bad idea, but there’s a more fundamental question here: Sure, it has the money, but is … Continued
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Tech NewsPornhub Adds Closed Captions For the Hearing Impaired and Stenographer Fetishists
Pornhub, the internet’s favorite smut factory, announced Wednesday that it is introducing a new feature to its massive collection of adult videos. The streaming service is adding closed captions to some of its videos to extend its offerings to people who are deaf or hard of hearing. According to the company, it will start its … Continued
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New Jersey Man Sues Pornhub for Ad Using His Money-Flashing Selfie
Pornhub has taken a strong stance against deepfakes, because the porn site understands that the machine-learning-generated videos that swap out performers’ faces with someone else’s are non-consensual. But a recent lawsuit accuses the company of running a person’s face in an advertisement without their consent. Edward Kelly of Marlton, New Jersey sued MindGeek, owner of … Continued
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Pornhub Pulls Pro-Weed Candidate’s Ads Following Allegations of Abuse and Lies
Benjamin Thomas Wolf’s congressional campaign is imploding. The Democrat candidate in Illinois’ 5th Congressional District—held by incumbent Rep. Mike Quigley—gained national attention after running a campaign ad in which he’s apparently smoking a joint. He got another boost this week after the Observer ran an article declaring him the “first politician ever to advertise on … Continued
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Pornhub Says Digitally Generated ‘Deepfakes’ Are Non-Consensual and It Will Remove Them
After Reddit and image-hosting platform Gfycat began removing porn videos digitally altered via machine-learning techniques to swap performers’ faces with those of someone else’s—a genre known as deepfakes—porn site Pornhub is following their lead. Per Motherboard, Pornhub said that it considers generating deepfakes of other people to be clearly non-consensual. It compared deepfakes to revenge … Continued
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Pornhub Is Cashing in on Ted Cruz’s Horny Twitter Gaffe
Technical diagrams. Active shooter training. A funeral. These are all things orders of magnitude more arousing than Ted Cruz, who’s smug, rat-like face is currently plastered on Pornhub.com. Earlier this week, the @TedCruz official Twitter account liked a short video tweeted out by user @SexuallPosts: an exerpt of a Reality Kings porno called “Dick For … Continued
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As the internet’s preeminent archive of loud, naked people so often does, Pornhub reminded the world this week that, yes, they’re logging all the weird shit we look at to get our kicks. This time, the porn site released a cheerful infographic mapping out America’s most frequently misspelled pornographic search terms by state. According to … Continued
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Tech NewsHere Is the Porn Video That Played in DC’s Union Station Last Night [NSFW]
Last night, a display screen in Union Station—one of Washington DC’s main transit hubs—found itself moonlighting as a tiny pornographic theater. Now, Gizmodo can exclusively reveal footage of the incident, and I can assure you that, one, it’s definitely pornography, and two, I have never had a commute this stimulating. While not technically safe for … Continued
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The Most NSFW Site For Streaming Every Star Wars Movie Is Pornhub
As far as accidental comedy goes, few things beat watching a PG-rated Disney film on a site with the ads for penis enlargement guides and “Tinder for MILFs.” And while I didn’t specifically seek out Pornhub or 2014’s animated adventure Big Hero 6 today, both came into view thanks to the Reddit community r/FullMoviesOnPornhub. The … Continued
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HBO Is Playing Whack-a-Mole With Illegally Uploaded Game of Thrones Nude Scenes
Game of Thrones is known in equal measure for its densely interwoven plot and its many, many, many nude scenes. But recently, lusty clips and compilations from HBO’s biggest cash cow have slowly started disappearing from Pornhub, one of the internet’s biggest porn sites. Suffice it to say this will be an exercise in futility. … Continued
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Pornhub Now Lets You Choose Porn With Emojis
Sometimes, you can’t be bothered wasting precious time browsing through pages of online porn to find the perfect video. Sometimes, you just want someone (or something) to do it for you. Enter “Emoji 4 Porn,” a new service launched today by Pornhub. It’s exactly what it sounds like: send an emoji, get back some porn. … Continued
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Pornhub Just Launched a Free Streaming App and It Is Weird
Do you dream of jerking off on your couch in surround sound as the dull blue glow on your giant 4K television fills your eyes with flesh? Today is your day my horny friend. Pornhub just launched its first ever app for set-top boxes. It’s a real blast. The new app just launched on Roku … Continued
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Pornhub Just Launched a Free VR Channel and It Is Wild
Have you ever wanted to try porn in virtual reality? Secretly, we all have, and Pornhub just made it insanely easy. The world’s biggest adult site partnered with established VR porn store BaDoink to offer free 360-degree content. It is obviously NFSW. If you’ve never tried VR porn, let me tell you: It is a … Continued
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Kanye West’s The Life of Pablo Is Streaming for Free… on Pornhub [Updated]
There you are, just doing your thing, cruising on Pornhub, looking for something both enlightening and entertaining, when…. what’s this? The Life of Pablo, Kanye West’s much-ballyhooed recent album? Streaming for all to hear? Indeed it is, as Consequence of Sound points out. Some clever sleuths on Reddit discovered that although it’s supposedly only available … Continued
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The Most Popular Porn Searches in Every State
Red states and blue states might not agree on much, but they do find some common ground on one topic: Porn. Americans really like porn. And apparently, according to PornHub data, Americans really like lesbian, stepmom, and stepsister porn in particular. The porn site just revealed the most popular porn search terms by state. Lesbian … Continued
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Russia Just Banned PornHub
In Soviet Russia, porno was a big no-no. And while the land of Putin has loosened up in recent years, it’s still very much frowned upon. Case in point: Russia has banned PornHub and ten other sexy websites. Roskomnadzor, Russia’s media overlords, just added the 11 sites hosting “illegal pornography” to the Unified Register of … Continued
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Pornhub Wants Us to Pay for Porn Now?
Finding free porn on the internet is not hard. Literally type “porn” intothe search engineof your choice and bada bing, bada boobs—you’ll get yourself some T&A&whatever other genitalia your freaky heart desires. Which is why Pornhub’s latest service—paid porn—is a bold move. Pornhub is launching a “Netflix-style” premium streaming service called Pornhub Premium for its … Continued
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Finally: A VR-Enabled, Twerking Robot Butt That You Can Fuck
Pornhub has really outdone itself this time. After inventing a wearable that lets you charge your gadgets by jerking off, the popular purveyor of freemium pornography is now offering an uncanny robot butt that twerks. It even comes with a virtual reality headset that offers “the first 3D cybersex experience.” Welcome to the future, pervs. … Continued
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ScienceSpace & Spaceflight6 Horrible and Doomed Space Missions, Brought to You By Crowdfunding
Government funding for space travel ain’t what it used to be. Private organizations are our best hope for exploring beyond Earth’s increasingly noxious atmosphere, and to get your cash they’re turning to Indiegogo and Kickstarter to fund ambitious space missions. Unfortunately, most of the projects are bonkers messes doomed to fail. Reach for the moon, … Continued
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