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200 million records exposed in massive Pornhub data breach — here’s what we know so far
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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.
your ability for suspension of dickbelief must be through the roof
I mean it takes almost zero, usually it's just the titles.
That's a good one
thank you, I was real proud
lol, very gross. even the gay ones has incest-like, step gay bro/dad/.
hah ! that's brilliant
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.
I mean, I’m not mad about why they removed so many videos. They had a massive CSAM and revenge porn problem, to the point that you could often find it on the front page. They also had really ineffectual methods for victims to report offending content, to get it taken down. There was also the whole “victim can only begin the takedown process (which likely won’t even get the video taken down) if they know it has been posted” problem. And their fix was to only allow uploads by verified users.
You can favorite things, and create lists. And their algorithm seems to show you things you might like based on that and your other views. I found it quite useful. Obviously I used a garbage email address.
They could still link your IP address to your porn profile
Maybe it's akin to raising your arms submissively and having your thigh gap n junk get 3D scanned / inspected by a fully clothed TSA agent. Degrading, but not without a little thrill, no?
Florida here, gotta use my VPN anyway to get to PH. 🤷🏻♂️
They do attempt to, with cookies as well^1^. I suppose the upside of an account would be that you could carry your recommendations, etc. with you and have vpn on and/or cookies blocked.
^1^ I would never visit this site myself of course. this info was shared to me via an acquaintance ( ͡ᵔ ͜ʖ ͡ᵔ )
My guess is following content creators that you like, and some people pay for the creator's premium videos.
To download
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
Although I absolutely understand that the common folk will have a hard time downloading porn in the CLI.
Eh, I used a one time email address generator before there were browser plugins to download embedded videos anyway, they can have my "data".
You can use the yt-dlp executable in the Youtube-DLG GUI interface. The interface is fine, the only thing wrong with it was that the executable behind it couldn't keep up with YT fuckery. They may have fixed it since then, but once I started manually updating it with yt-dlp I never stopped, so I don't even know anymore. And I'm sure there are better alternatives, I just got used to using this one.
So if you want the GUI front end, it's profoundly easy. Download Youtube-DLG, rename yt-dlp.exe to youtube-dl.exe, and then put it into the appropriate folder (%appdata%/youtube-dl/ on Windows). Overwrite or just delete the existing youtube-dl.exe because it doesn't work anyway.
If you are installing Youtube-DLG for the first time you may have to manually install ffmpeg as well, if memory serves.
The sole drawback is that, for obvious reasons, updates are now manual. Every so often YT breaks it again and I just go download yt-dlp again, rename it, and put the new one in the Youtube-DLG folder. Job done.
That doesn’t sound easy at all for someone who lacks the technical ability to type/paste ”yt-dlp [URL]”
There are sites where you just plug in the URL and the video downloads.
That's what that is. You copy the link and type
And it downloads, if you add -x between the command and the URL it extracts the MP3 (If you want music).
It has 100% less ads and malware than those shady websites (who are just running yt-dlp in the background).
Sorry I had to laugh about that :) Yes, the soundtrack of porns is notoriously good lol (/s)
I can't have enough cheesy saxophone music in my life.
They gave away free premium during the COVID-19 lockdowns