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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: 2) by edIII on Monday May 06 2019, @08:31PM (1 child)
This is just as true with everything else on the Internet. Whether true or not, you frequented alt-right sites flagged as violent hate groups, and then a campaign is launched to get you fired from your job. They can invent a paper trail for everything, and proving innocence is difficult.
Which is why I exclusively use the Darknets for pretty much everything. I don't search with Google, but DuckDuckGo through a proxy. I don't use search engines for porn, and likewise, do not utilize streaming porn services like Pornhub.com. Unless I'm some place with an open Wifi and I can spoof my MAC.
Again, Piracy provides the superior products, adds a 'v', and provides you your PriVacy at the same time. I look like the most boring man on Earth if you categorizing my Internet usage, with persistent heavily encrypted connections leaving the United States and arriving in Northern Europe. Realistically, I don't even appear as an American to American websites.
The last time I spent even a dime on porn, it was with cash at a porn shop in the 90's. Since then I've gone dark with private tracker porn sites that also specialize in amateur porn for its members.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by Alfred on Tuesday May 07 2019, @01:36PM