Pornhub.com Removes All "unverified" Content. Millions Of Videos Vanish.

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Exclusive: Pornhub is removing all videos on its site that weren't uploaded by official content partners or members of its model program—meaning a significant portion of its videos will disappear.



vice.com - 4:03 AM · Dec 14, 2020
Pornhub Just Purged All Unverified Content From the Platform
After changing its policies to ban unverified uploaders and Mastercard and Visa's decision to drop the platform entirely, Pornhub has removed millions of videos.
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Pornhub bans user uploads after abuse allegations

Pornhub, one of the world's most visited adult sites, is changing its rules over user uploads after being accused of hosting illegal videos.


A New York Times investigation accused the site of being "infested" with child-abuse and rape-related videos.

Pornhub said the claims were
"irresponsible and flagrantly untrue".

But it has now said users must be verified to upload videos and removed its download function, which meant removed content could easily resurface.

The verification feature will launch in the new year, it said. For now, uploads have been removed for all users except industry professionals.


The move follows reports Visa and Mastercard had launched their own investigations into the claims.

If - as the New York Times article had urged - the two payment companies had suspended their services, it would have hit the website's owner, Mindgeek, financially.

Pornhub is generally free to use but offers a subscription service for higher-quality and exclusive videos.

The company has also now issued a statement promising
"major steps to further protect our community".
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Pornhub Upended the Porn Industry. Now New Changes Could Destroy Sex Workers' Livelihoods

At the start of the pandemic, Alex and Cassie, a same-sex, nonbinary, multiracial couple based in Canada, were laid off from their full-time jobs. Scrambling for income, and unable to leave the house because of Alex’s preexisting conditions, Alex and Cassie, who asked to be identified only by their first names to protect their privacy, decided to start selling pornographic content through Pornhub.


On Thursday, credit card processors Visa and Mastercard made a shocking announcement: they would be terminating their relationships with Pornhub. It was part of a series of reforms surrounding the porn behemoth, following an exposé in the New York Times by journalist Nicholas Kristof regarding the presence of videos depicting rape and child sexual abuse on the website. Alex and Cassie reacted to the news with “complete horror and fear.”

“There’s absolutely no work in our area and without paid content on these sites, we’ll lose more than 50 percent of our income,” they tell Rolling Stone. For the first time since the pandemic started, they wondered if they might become homeless. “No other industry cuts someone’s salary in half overnight,” they say. “And it feels terrible, because we have done nothing wrong.”

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'War Against Sex Workers:' What Visa and Mastercard Dropping Pornhub Means to Performers

The world's biggest credit card companies terminated service to Pornhub, and performers on the site say it could seriously harm their livelihoods.
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My own four Playlists on Pornhub, of ADULT men proudly masturbating, solo or together with other ADULT men, have been reduced from nearly 2,000 videos, down to about 220!

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Yep. All of my content from Xtube deleted overnight. Luckily it's all here, but that seriously sucks for a lot of people (I get their reasoning for doing it, but the way they've gone about is shit).
Well that just sucks. My pornhub favourites went down to 1 video and my xtube down to 7 videos. I had well over 100 videos on xtube favourited. Great. Now what do I jack off to...

They also removed our profile page's avatars and cover phots, which we can not re-upload at this time.


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On the one hand, there were rightwing Christians after the largest porn site on the net just out of hatred for sex. On the other hand I have run into twinks that looked less than 'barely legal' on there (and reported them when I did). PornHub is basically mainstream which means they got so big they probably couldn't keep track of everything hosted on their site. I don't blame them for going to verified only as the credit card companies were fleeing.

Come to think of it, someone had mentioned tried to search videos like showers and locker room had already been disabled and I had noticed they seemed to be favoring verified content in their searches. I feel like they may have been trying to make some changes already.

It make sense to kinda lean into a content producer as a site though. They have name recognition and unlike OnlyFans, I doubt Bella Thorn is going to show up and only post clothed videos on it :p
 

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Yep. All of my content from Xtube deleted overnight. Luckily it's all here, but that seriously sucks for a lot of people (I get their reasoning for doing it, but the way they've gone about is shit).
Can we request a lost ph vid on here in case somebody downloaded it at some point? Im new lol
 
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Can we request a lost ph vid on here in case somebody downloaded it at some point? Im new lol

Worth a try, but could you start a separate thread for that, please?... Can we keep this one to news about Pornhub, and reactions to their recent actions.


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Pornhub's decision has already affected LPSG itself. I just did a quick search through some Forum threads that typically get a lot of porn videos posted in them. All of the ones that I saw that were embedded from Pornhub are now dead.

Luckily, I have mostly been posting from XVideos.com for a few months now, 'cause I was finding hotter stuff there, that appeal to me, (solo, mutual, and group male masturbation), than at Pornhub. They are still working in threads here.


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This is why I’m glad I saved all of my favs. Some of those videos (looking at you Tim Zirolnik burning man orgy) were pain to find *lovingly rubs external HDD*
 

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I'm soo upset i didn't save all my fav vids except for a couple... Now I'm binge downloading my whole playlist on xvideos. The mf from NYT just tweeted about xvideos today, so it's most likely next.


Thanks for the heads-up.

I think I'll just let it go. It would take well more than a fulltime week to download all of my Favorites at Xvideos. I've got too much else to do.
 

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This is just how internet works, right? music, vids, messaging, blog sites, porn.... I can't make a list with 10 big players that hold their place... 6 maybe...If they grow too big is probably they’ll be gone soon.

Anyway, really frustrating trying to masturbate last night, click after click, nothing, well, my ex bf pics on my phone always make me cum so that's what i ended up doing :)
 
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Tragic news...
They could have given users a week's notice at least. But I guess in some ways that defeats the purpose.

Luckily for me, I started downloading all my fav videos a year ago after I noticed websites with hot stuff slowly disappearing.
Tumblr was hit hard, Openload was deleted, Myvidster still works but it's not as great as it once was.

Many of my recent Xvideos links are dead too but that site has been unreliable for a while now, I don't think that's related to a similar crackdown.

My guess is more and more websites are going to receive the same treatment so if you find something hot, download it!

I personally have been finding some gems on NewTumbl - check it out if you haven't. It's probably gonna disappear soon too.