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https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/05/mindgeek/
Streaming services like Hulu and Netflix are well known for leveraging data, and characterizing users. They're household names. But you've probably never heard of another streaming giant who's just as ubiquitous. Mindgeek, the world's biggest porn company. With corporate holdings like Pornhub, Xvideos, Redtube, and YouPorn there's a good chance you've used their services. And just like Netflix, they're keeping tabs on your interests and lobbying their own. Coordinating a vast net of data collection using the power of monopoly and the state that's altogether uncomfortable.
Coining themselves a leader "in the design, development, marketing, SEO and management of highly trafficked websites." It's not readily apparent Mindgeek is a porn colossus involved in the same upselling, data collection, and curated advertising that sustains the digital economy. Even less obvious is Mindgeek's involvement in the proliferation of dystopian and draconian legislation. Including new legislation in the United Kingdom.
You may know the United Kingdom plans on implementing a system, called AgeID, which forces adult websites to ask users for age verification; via credit card, passport, or driver's license. Coined the 'Porn Pass' AgeID will offer a database by which users can verify their identities before viewing adult content. Guess who owns the AgeID verification system. Mindgeek.
Additional reading: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/03/style/britain-age-porn-law.html
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 06 2019, @07:41PM (2 children)
This will push the lawful porn onto the liberty nets, and increase the traffic until enough people are using them to make consumer oriented secure services practical. Where goeth the porn, eventually goeth the rest of the Internet.
This has got to be a scam. Probably what your looking at is just a technical unicorn being used by internal beurocrats to do some wholesale embezzlement. The whole thing will go up in smoke, and there will be some administrator with his dick in his hand wondering where the money went, while a couple of members of parliment are hanging out with porn stars in the virgin islands drinking mai tais with their hard stolen public funds.
(Score: 2) by kazzie on Monday May 06 2019, @07:52PM
If it's a scam, then the UK Government is in on it too [legislation.gov.uk].
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 06 2019, @10:14PM
Only if he can prove his age.