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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I applaud them for this because there is content on there that CLEARLY did not have consent of all parties involved to be uploaded. Dudes are grimey as fuck and will video themselves fucking a girl, hiding their faces while the girl gets exposed. That's fucked up
 

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I applaud them for this because there is content on there that CLEARLY did not have consent of all parties involved to be uploaded. Dudes are grimey as fuck and will video themselves fucking a girl, hiding their faces while the girl gets exposed. That's fucked up

I agree with you about that, of course, but, I think Pornhub's purge went way too far, wiping out tons of content that was obviously adults only, involved, posted by the individuals, themselves.

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I agree with you about that, of course, but, I think Pornhub's purge went way too far, wiping out tons of content that was obviously adults only, involved, posted by the individuals, themselves.

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That I agree, but they had no choice. Getting cut off by Mastercard and Visa is a death sentence for them.
 

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That I agree, but they had no choice. Getting cut off by Mastercard and Visa is a death sentence for them.

Unfortunately, also for the 1,000's of performers on Pornhub's live cams.

I have yet to see any news about whether Visa and/or Mastercard will get back onboard with Pornhub, now. Or if PornHub will go with another way of receiving payments.... Like PayPal, maybe?
 
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It's a shame
I had an account in pornhub and unfortunately I lost many videos. Anyway, I have many more to upload but now I am looking for another platform to upload videos and share, with the option of private videos and things like that. Any suggestion?
 

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[QUOTE = "sandro483rr, publicación: 44122741, miembro: 7854841"] Es una pena
Tenía una cuenta en pornhub y desafortunadamente perdí muchos videos. De todos modos, tengo muchos más para subir pero ahora estoy buscando otra plataforma para subir videos y compartir, con la opción de videos privados y cosas así. ¿Alguna sugerencia? [/ QUOTE]
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I just logged in to my PH account and the first thing I noticed was my avatar photo was removed. I'm assuming that these will now need to be verified as well.

Also, over half of the videos on my favorites list are gone. Not a big deal, but studio porn isn't really my thing. I much prefer amateur and webcam-style content. I imagine that kind of stuff is going to be harder to find in the future.
 

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Will these amateur videos be back after content verified? Anyone knows? Is it gone "forever"?

It's most likely gone forever. Such is the way online platform goes, Tumblr banned porn--folks moved to Twitter. PornHub deleted porn--who the fuck knows where we go now lmao
 

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It's most likely gone forever. Such is the way online platform goes, Tumblr banned porn--folks moved to Twitter. PornHub deleted porn--who the fuck knows where we go now lmao
I'd be crying!! Much amateur content I gathered for years in my favorite videos! I really hope PH would take a second consideration about it. Otherwise, the website would lose many visitors!
 

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I just logged in to my PH account and the first thing I noticed was my avatar photo was removed. I'm assuming that these will now need to be verified as well.

Also, over half of the videos on my favorites list are gone. Not a big deal, but studio porn isn't really my thing. I much prefer amateur and webcam-style content. I imagine that kind of stuff is going to be harder to find in the future.

I also noticed that my avatar and cover photos were taken down. I tried to reupload both but got error messages that they can not be uploaded at this time. Why they would bother with messing with our avatars is beyond me!

I also have nearly no interest in porn studio videos, Nearly all of the the videos that I saved in my Favorites, and in my Playlists were hot amateurs. Now, most of them are gone, and I'm afraid are irreplaceable.


Will these amateur videos be back after content verified? Anyone know? Is it gone "forever"?

Nope, I don't know. Waiting to hear news about it, though.

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Pornhub is done. And much like the "war on drugs" the things they've done will have little to no effect on anything.
There are THOUSANDS of other similar sites. Most of the vids on Pornhub can be found elsewhere. What Pornhub did was bogus posturing that doesn't change a thing. It's just gonna cause content to move to different platforms.
 

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I enjoy the amateur videos more than the studio made ones too, but i understand why they removed the amateur vids with no verified source.

I would wager that a good 90% of the women who are shown in the videos that have no direct sourcing are victims of some piece of shit uploading it without consent.

I mean I've seen some awful shit on Phub, one video had a group of guys taking turns fucking a girl who was barely responsive. Literal gang rape. This was well overdue.

It's a shame that content creators got their legally made stuff taken down and I hope they can correct that, but I'm glad they took action. Every single video uploaded needs to be verified for consent and age of the participants.
 

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Pornhub is done. And much like the "war on drugs" the things they've done will have little to no effect on anything.
There are THOUSANDS of other similar sites. Most of the vids on Pornhub can be found elsewhere. What Pornhub did was bogus posturing that doesn't change a thing. It's just gonna cause content to move to different platforms.

Honestly most creators from what I see use hub as advertisement for their only fans anyway.