Pornhub will use a third-party firm to verify IDs on uploaded content

Posted on 04/02/2021 by Engadget

Pornhub has been on damage control ever since a New York Times report published in December accused it of allowing the monetization of child exploitation, revenge porn and other illegal content with its lax policy enforcement. Now, the website has ex...

Visa will allow select payments from Pornhub owner Mindgeek

Posted on 24/12/2020 by Engadget

Visa isn’t done investigating allegations of illegal activity against Pornhub, but it has apparently seen enough to start accepting payments from its parent company again. According to Reuters and CNN, the credit card company will allow payments usin...

Pornhub removes all unverified videos from its platform

Posted on 14/12/2020 by Engadget

Last week, infamous porn-hosting site Pornhub made a big change by cutting off “unverified” uploads. Now, the company is taking things a step further and has removed all content that wasn’t uploaded by either a “content partner” or a verified user. O...

Mastercard cuts off payments to Pornhub

Posted on 10/12/2020 by Engadget

Pornhub is no longer able to accept payments from Mastercard. The credit card company says it’s axing its relationship with the website after finding illegal content on the site. “Today, the use of our cards at Pornhub is being terminated,” Mastercar...

Pornhub ends unverified uploads and bans downloads

Posted on 08/12/2020 by Engadget

Pornhub is making major changes to its service following a New York Times article that highlighted how the site’s lax enforcement of its policies has enabled child exploitation.Among the changes: Pornhub is ending uploads from unverified users and ba...

Pornhub’s year in review defined by ‘Fortnite’ and Stormy Daniels

Posted on 11/12/2018 by Engadget RSS Feed

Like Twitter before it, Pornhub is crowning its biggest trends of 2018. There's no mention of its parent Mindgeek's age verification tool for the UK -- which could see it become the gatekeeper for porn in the country -- or its custom VPN and launch o...

‘The Butterfly Effect’ explores tech’s impact on the porn industry

Posted on 17/07/2018 by Engadget RSS Feed

Free porn changed the world, and The Butterfly Effect explains how. It's a seven-episode podcast series produced by author and screenwriter Jon Ronson that tracks the wide-ranging impacts of the rise of "tube" sites like Pornhub. The story starts wi...

Pornhub adds closed captions for viewers with hearing loss

Posted on 27/06/2018 by Engadget RSS Feed

Pornhub may always have one eye on an eye-catching publicity stunt, but it is at least trying to bring adult content to those with accessibility issues. From today, the site is adding closed captions to a section of its content library, geared toward...

Pornhub made a VPN

Posted on 24/05/2018 by Engadget RSS Feed

Arguably the biggest adult video website on the planet, Pornhub is responsible for plenty of folks getting their rocks off each day. But, as regulations on the internet trend rightward, access to adult content is becoming a problem. That's why the si...

Pornhub hasn’t been actively enforcing its deepfake ban

Posted on 19/04/2018 by Engadget RSS Feed

Remember how Pornhub said it was banning AI-generated deepfake videos? They're still a problem months later. BuzzFeed News "easily" found over 100 of the non-consensual videos by searching for obvious keywords like "deepfake" and "fake deep," nearl...