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Don’t worry though, because there’s no way your ID verification for adult sites will ever get leaked
They should have done more penetration testing.
It wouldn't have taken much effort to find that gaping back door.
They rushed. If you push it too fast it'll blow up in your face.
Amateurs.
According to ShinyHunters, the records contain extensive data on Premium members including email addresses, activity type, location, video URL, video name, keywords associated with the video and the time the event occurred. Activity types include whether the subscriber watched or downloaded a video, or viewed a channel and events include search histories.
This sort of thing is one of those examples why "no log, no profile" service is probably a good idea. The service could have offered the option to charge a fee for access, but not retain customer activity data. They didn't do that. At some point down the line, someone got ahold of the data, which I imagine that their customers are not really super keen on having floating around attached to their identities.
Probably a lot of companies out there that log and retain a lot of data about their customers.
Good idea for consumers. Too bad nobody cares about that. Unless it’s their core business.
This is exactly why we need GDPR
Why do you need to log into pornhub? I, um, a friend of mine, uses it fine without logging in...
There was a time when they were pushing the step sibling fetish real hard, like, all the videos in the front page were that, and then they put a banner saying "tired of seeing step____? Why not make an account and filter it out?"
Dunno about y'all but I can wank through the made up plot points without much trouble
If I could wank it to scrambled porn 30 years ago then any subtext or dialogue is like a fart in the wind once I get going.
You can follow uploaders, but since the mass removal of 85% of their videos I doubt the website has ever gotten better. I had a few favourites noted down but none of them exist now.
This is going to be fun. Let’s do some Data Analysis with this. Find the republican with the highest amount of watch time of gay porn.
South Carolina has entered the chat
It'll be fun finding all those "antiporn", "antidei", "antilgbtq+" fine people watching exactly that. Bonus points for .va domains.
.va = Vatican city officials, for those too lazy to Google.
This is exactly why I'm cautious with websites that store people's IDs.
Sorry, but I don't think we're emphasising enough that Pornhub shared details of its users, such as their search history and watched videos, with an external company and that external company kept that data for over four years after their relationship ended.
Oh, but the children are safe and priority and that's why they want to verify them. Oh but the children. Think about the children!!! CHILDREN!!!
Children is all US Republicans seem to be able to think about...
how much of them are conservatives watching gay or trans porn.
Exactly the first thought I had.
YOU KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS, IT'S TIME TO PLAY THE WORLD'S LONGEST RUNNING GAME SHOW....
Let's Greet our Contestants, shall we?
He's so homophobic someone renamed a mix of Cum and Lube after him, it's Rick Santorum!
He's so transphobic JK Rowling told him to tone it down, It's Graham Linnerhan!
Despite wearing platform shoes, he wants to make all forms of Queerness a crime, it's Ron DeSantis!
And finally, she's called for Transgender Women to be executed en mass, for famous transwomen to be raped, and she's featured in some of the Queer porn in question, it's Lily Cade!
PUBLISH ALL OF IT!!
The most embarrassing part about this would be people finding out you actually pay for porn
According to ShinyHunters, the records contain extensive data on Premium members including email addresses, activity type, location, video URL, video name, keywords associated with the video and the time the event occurred. Activity types include whether the subscriber watched or downloaded a video, or viewed a channel and events include search histories.
haha
Eh. Good I never had premium then.
(Though I suspect my porn habits were exposed in much detail otherwise via something like personalized state surveillance.)
This why they are against store peoples ID. And this why those websites should never do it.
At some point on the Web (in my childhood, in the Russian-speaking parts - around 2002-2004) anything requiring registration was treated as some sort of closed club, and that was about just registration. Though people exposed their ICQ UINs and email addresses, so that you could chat with them (that's the old way you'd DM a person whose post you liked).
I'm not sure about all these rules of what websites should and shouldn't do. Perhaps websites should be always treated as some untrusted alien space that can possibly do anything. If you want to do something where such a leak is really bad, or anything worse than a pocket theft of 20$ - then perhaps such a system shouldn't rely upon untrusted centralized service having everything.
I like the social model that existed then, though. It was somewhat global, now we have modern Web services (even if in Fediverse) that expose everything over the Web, posts, DMs and so on. Back then forums were websites, DMs were in ICQ\XMPP\Skype, email as its own thing, feeds as RSS.
I have heard people try to explain why they log in on porn sites: It saves your favorite videos, it recommends new videos and it makes it possible to see paid content.
All three things are reasons why I don't want to log in. Yeah, like I want a list of my perversions attached to my name.
Free registration is what custom email addressed with fake personal information are for, if you want those features.
Pornhub has not worked with Mixpanel since 2021, which means that the stolen data would be from that year or earlier. Reuters, who contacted some Pornhub customers to confirm the breach, was able to authenticate that the user data that pertained to those customers was accurate – but was several years old which would be consistent with the Mixpanel data.
We checked our accounts and this is what we found...
Who the hell uses their real name and e-mail to open accounts in sites like PornHub?
EDIT: I enjoy porn and so does my wife. Neither one of us is shy about it, but neither of us would use our real info to open an account. Who the hell wants infinite floods of adult product email spam?
But according to governments around the world, we should use our IDs in order to access this kind of material. And this is exactly why it's a fucking terrible idea.
Release the pornhub files!
...Ive seen the fact that comments exist on these sites but genuinely who makes an account on pornhub?
I mean premium was free in 2020... you could download 4k VR content in the TBs. Oddest thing ive ever had stolen
