• skinnydugan@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    9 months

    Dr. Cox was right: “I’m fairly sure if they took porn off the internet, there’d only be one website left, and it’d be called ‘Bring Back the Porn.'”

    • Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish
      9 months

      Political theater. “Won’t somebody think of the children?” is an easy win for politicians.

      • 0x0@lemmy.zipEnglish
        9 months

        Plus an excuse to collect more data.

        • loutr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          9 months

          Yeah the point is just to soften the populace to the idea. Our fucking PM covered for pedophile priests in a Catholic school 30 years ago, he doesn’t give any fuck about kids.

        • RiQuY@lemm.eeEnglish
          9 months

          If you are paying for a VPN and you have buffering problems, change to another VPN, that one is shit.

            • FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.frEnglish
              9 months

              Sometimes routing between two IPs is fucked. Had that, and proxying to another location then to the destination again fixed it. Internet 😵

        • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          9 months

          Video over Tor is pretty awful, simply due to the way Tor works; Bandwidth is inherently limited, because it’s shared by everyone using the network. Same reason you should avoid torrenting over Tor.

          But if your video is buffering over a VPN, you need to find a new VPN provider. Mine maxes out my gigabit connection.

          • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            9 months

            Are there going to be bandwidth problems with vpns when more countries block porn though?

            Like lots of France just joined them, and the rest of us lost a bunch of French exit nodes (at least for porn). The increase in subscribers should help expand bandwidth at big servers, but there’sa limit when we’re talking whole nations.

        • AmbitiousProcess (they/them)@piefed.socialEnglish
          9 months

          My VPN’s perfectly fine. To be fair, it’s not a free plan of a VPN that’s heavily throttled, but I can even play multiplayer FPS games with only a few milliseconds of additional delay, and my overall max upload and download speed is almost exactly identical to when I have my VPN off.

        • Lumisal@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9 months

          Could be worse. Could be you’re in the early 90s with only a 56k modem.

        • muusemuuse@lemm.eeEnglish
          9 months

          Why use Tor? It’s been compromised for years now. Just use I2P. You can torrent with that too.

    • Schmoo@startrek.websiteEnglish
      9 months

      VPN companies and data brokers have a financial incentive to lobby for intrusive age-verification and restrictions, and prudish politicians are conveniently present in every political system. The porn lobby is powerful, but it seems they’ve been losing this battle recently. Or maybe they’re cutting deals with the data brokers, who knows.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9 months

      Politically speaking, it’s easy money. You pander to the conservatives with blocking propositions, get votes.

      *Who is going to champion the flip side?!"

      • Liz@midwest.socialEnglish
        9 months

        Me. Porn is fine. Teach your children how to handle it. Teach them that it’s not realistic and some of it is straight-up dangerous. Put a filter on your internet if you’re too scared to talk to your kids about uncomfortable topics.

        • boonhet@lemm.eeEnglish
          9 months

          Man it’s porn, not guns. Children should not be near it!

          Oh wait this is France

          Anyway, I agree with you. We’re talking about regular ol garden variety porn. Everyone will probably see it at some point. Parents can limit what their kids see until the kids become smart enough to bypass filters. At which point they can probably handle seeing pennis n vagene.

      • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        9 months

        Reminds me of when my buddies discovered our friend’s YouTube account… He only had one public playlist, and it was 100% full of softcore porn. Nothing else. It was all softcore porn. We gave him a pretty good ribbing for that one, and still make a point of reminding him that better porn sites exist every time it comes up.

        • FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.frEnglish
          9 months

          Always hide your playlists and subscriptions haha

          But softcore has the benefit to help you retain normal libido and to not be dependent of more hardcore stuff

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        9 months

        I feel like reddit and YouTube are completely different leagues when it comes to porn… Porn is the only reason I haven’t deleted my last reddit account. YT doesn’t even really have real porn…

        • FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.frEnglish
          9 months

          YT doesn’t even really have real porn

          Indeed, but there’s still things to find if you’re a young scared kiddo, and I’d say it’s pretty soft so it’s okay

  • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9 months

    I have to admit, of all the nations on earth, I never expected this sort of puritanical theatrical authoritarianism out of the french.

    • FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.frEnglish
      9 months

      They’ve been trying to block it for many years now.

      France has been going downhill for quite some time. Many proposals for chat control and tracking… even recently, we got a law proposal that aimed at banning E2EE 😵

        • FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.frEnglish
          9 months

          When it’s not about protecting kids, it’s about fighting drugs

          They always have a “good” reason to remove our freedom, because apparently security seems much more important, and it seems like it’s the only way to do it. Lol.

        • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          9 months

          Authoritarians have embraced internet culture somehow.

          I’m curious how they got Gen Z so curtailed.

      • chunes@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9 months

        Politicians are always trying to ban encryption in every country. I remember it happening constantly in the 90s. And it happens because politicians don’t understand that you can’t ban math

    • NotKyloRen@lemmy.zipEnglish
      9 months

      They should actually take to the streets (again). Not joking. What is this nanny-state BS?

    • Vermingot@jlai.luEnglish
      9 months

      To clarify, the french didn’t ban pornhub, it’s the company behind pornhub who decided to deny it’s access in France to protest a law proposal that is currently getting examined in parliament

      Ps : The law in question would require all porn sites to verify the age of its users

        • Kornblumenratte@feddit.orgEnglish
          9 months

          Well – this might be more succesful in boostering the IT skills of France’s next generation than any curriculum reform.

        • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          9 months

          How do you know it’s just boys? Seems an odd assumption, considering the nature of omission of information with this.

          • Rekorse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            9 months

            Because the majority of porn watchers are male at about a 4:1 ratio. They aren’t saying it was exclusively boys either, likely just what made sense from their perspective at the time.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
        9 months

        The law in question would require all porn sites to verify the age of its users

        Wait aren’t they proposing the same thing in the US as well? It’s a fairly standard thing of right-wing governments to just demand the impossible with no understanding about it could possibly be achieved.

        • Bluewing@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9 months

          They understand just how hard it would be to comply. And that’s the point. Make it hard enough to meet the requirements to not make worth a business’ while to comply. And the politicians can say “We didn’t ban PornHub. They blocked you from access.”

          It’s a common tool both the left and right use to control behaviors. Governments around the world do this all the time.

        • RandallFlagg@lemm.eeEnglish
          9 months

          For now it’s not nation wide, it’s just up to states if they want to implement an age verification law like that. They want to make it so that in order to prove your identity/age you need to do something like upload a copy of your ID/Drivers License that will be linked with your “research” accounts.

          They say it’s to “save the children” and shit like that but the end goal really is to basically shame people who enjoy researching things because Jesus says it’s bad.

        • Rekorse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          9 months

          Right, because we’ve never checked ID for things like tobacco and alcohol before?

          These porn companies should work on efficient cost effective ways to verify adults instead of using politics and social media to increase profits. I’m sure you are aware profit is higher if children are allowed on their websites.

          • Halosheep@lemm.eeEnglish
            9 months

            It’s very different handing my ID to a store clerk, who barely looks at it because my birth year starts with 19, from uploading a photo of that ID to a sketchy service who now has a permanent documentation of precisely who I am and what sort of freaky shit I’m into.

            Sure, the tracking services already know this, but they don’t also have a photo of my ID that I willingly gave to them to prove it’s me.

            • Rekorse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              9 months

              Are you embarrassed you look at porn? There’s plenty of ways to manage without an internet connection. Go grab a compilation torrent.

              Even if all these sites went verification tonight, you’d still be able to privately jerk off to whatever it is you want to hide so bad.

                • Womble@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  9 months

                  Given that I torrent without a VPN and it had nothing on there, and it also got my location wrong by over 500km, I dont think I’m too worried.

                • Rekorse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                  9 months

                  I’m not opposed to vpns. I simply don’t want porn accessible to children easily. Simple barriers to entry like an ID or credit card have worked before and surely will again once porn streaming sites give up fighting this regulation and start working to follow it.

          • zalgotext@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            9 months

            How about we put some responsibility on parents to keep their kids away from potentially harmful Internet content, instead of relying on the state to do it for us in large swathes, affecting literally anyone who goes to those sites, legally or not? Surely you’re more on board with responsible parenting than everyone having to hand over their legal identification to a fucking porn site.

            • Rekorse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              9 months

              Its on both sides of the relationship, parent and porn provider. Same as with alcohol and tobacco, if you don’t have parents doing their part, those kids end up with that stuff anyways.

              • zalgotext@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                9 months

                Brick and mortar shops aren’t comparable to websites, and I don’t know why you keep trying to compare them. The places that sell alcohol and tobacco aren’t asking me to upload a digital version of my legal identification to some cloud-backed database. They’re just manually checking a date and a picture. Most places I buy from don’t even make me physically hand over my ID, I can just show it to them without it ever leaving my possession.

                • Rekorse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                  9 months

                  You’ve never had your I’d scanned at a store before? How do you think all that works?

          • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
            9 months

            Yes because I’m not buying whisky online am I’m going to a physical store where I can give them my physical ID and they can look at my physical face. Unless I’m wearing a very convincing prosthetic there isn’t very much I can do to hide my identity.

            Online is harder, just because I have uploaded an ID doesn’t mean it’s mine. What are they going to do, demand a video as well, because it’s not as if video generation hasn’t already gotten to the point where it’s perfectly capable of faking that kind of thing.

            I can see you haven’t thought about this at all. You should run for office.

      • ssillyssadass@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9 months

        The law in question would require all porn sites to verify the age of its users

        Isn’t that already the case on a lot of the internet?

        • EldritchFemininity@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          9 months

          I think this law requires you to upload a photo of your ID and says that it’s the website’s fault if underage people use it and they face a hefty fine. It’s a lot more than the standard “click to pinky promise that you’re definitely 18” because PornHub already has that.

    • HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.comEnglish
      9 months

      I know right? Aren’t there nude beaches in the south of France where people will fuck in broad daylight with others watching?

      French citizens please confirm (for uh, science, and not vacation planning)!

      • BlueMagma@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        9 months

        Yes, there are. But you misunderstood the news: France didn’t block pornhub, pornhub blocked France as a protest against a new law.

        • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          9 months

          Age verification in a porn database is odd to me, from a privacy point of view AND a massive undertaking for the porn company. And then there’s the puritan culture of wanting to block teenagers from watching porn? Seems a very anti-French thing to me, but I’m also pretty ignorant of actual French culture. I assumed French culture would be like, once you have the urges, you’ll go seeking, and if you need to look at the internet in the safety of your own bedroom, is better than unexpected pregnancies to satisfy urges.

          What’s the deal with all of this, anyway? What are the arguments here?

          • BlueMagma@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            9 months

            I’m not aware of the exact motivations of all the actors. What follows are my guesses.

            My guess would be that

            • Some député want to protect children from the most dangerous types of porn (which I can hear on some level, porn can be addictive for some people and can lead to negative behaviour, children are always more sensitive).
            • Some probably think that all porn is bad and want to prevent anyone from consuming it, this would only be a first step for those.
            • Some definitely want to be able to spy on everyone and use this as an excuse to further reduce privacy and freedom

            You might not be aware depending where you are from, but France is on a slippery slope towards Fascism, the far right is gaining more power every day, a lot of people think it is very plausible that a far right president is elected on the next election (2027), along with a parliament’s majority.

          • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
            9 months

            What are the arguments

            “Protect delicate children’s eyes from seeing nudity”

            I think that’s about it

          • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
            9 months

            Germany had this since forever, it’s just how offline laws translate to the internet: There’s a difference between a) ordinary nudity, b) eroticism and c) straight-up porn. The latter was always 18+, in video rental stores etc. they would have a separate section and if you didn’t look of age you’d get ID’d.

            You can’t order alcohol online in Germany without a proper age check, and the same applies to porn. For paid offerings that’s no issue, payment providers offer age checks (your bank knows how old you are and them vouching suffices), for free sites it’s a no-go, noone is going to go through the hassle. Especially as you can escape off the German-language internet onto the international one and merely click through an “are you 18” banner.

            Notably, pornhub isn’t blocked in Germany – neither from the German side, nor from pornhub’s. Very occasionally DNS bans are ordered when a site without age checks tries to specifically target the German market. Mostly though it’s down to German google not serving up those international porn sites which in the end is good enough for the youth protection authorities because the point is not to make access impossible, it’s to make sure that youth not ready for content doesn’t stumble across it. And once you’re actively seeking, you’re ready, the hoops you have to jump through are proof of the “active” part. YMMV on “not ready for porn with 18”, back in the days there was still softcore. On free TV. Probably won’t hurt kids to not start out with gonzo.

    • NauticalNoodle@lemmy.mlEnglish
      9 months

      Democracy and general Egalitarianism is so 2008. Authoritarianism is what’s hot now.

    • MisterFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9 months

      The percentages of respondents in surveys on infidelity answering “not a moral issue” from France are a bit of a cultural difference (from Australian perspective, anyway)

  • passepartout@feddit.orgEnglish
    9 months

    I’m shocked that this many people feel the need to disobey a rule that is only there to help the children. Next step must be to ban VPNs altogether, and enforcing all Internet users to be identified with their real identity (/s obviously).

    • scott@lemmy.orgEnglish
      9 months

      Jokes on them I just have an incredibly high volume of DNS traffic

    • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      9 months

      The VPNs will be harder to ban. Not just from a technical standpoint, but politically as well. Big businesses will be absolutely opposed to VPN bans.

      • passepartout@feddit.orgEnglish
        9 months

        There will be a lot of businesses who feel the (justified) need to hide the entrypoint to their infrastructure behind a VPN.

      • ifItWasUpToMe@lemmy.caEnglish
        9 months

        I feel they could easily ban VPN companies (maybe?), which is what 99.9% of people that want to browse from a different location use.

        This won’t affect companies at all as they would be using their own VPN.

        • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          9 months

          The only way the sovereign nation of France can ban VPN companies not based in France is to block the IP address of every single entry point of every single VPN company and keep doing so as they add new entry points (I bet the response on the VPN company side would be to start having some kind of dynamic VPN server thing).

          And then, as somebody else already pointed out, any technically inclined person can just rent a VPS anywhere in the World and fire up their own VPN server on it.

    • affiliate@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9 months

      if the VPN ban doesn’t work then the only reasonable course of action would be to ban the internet entirely. it’s the only way the children can be truly safe.

    • FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.frEnglish
      9 months

      Don’t give them ideas. If they block no-log VPNs I’m going to become a real threat 👀

    • unautrenom@jlai.luEnglish
      9 months

      Fun fact: they already tried. In the same law where they tried to ban E2EE a few months ago. It went about as well as you’d expect.

    • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.socialEnglish
      9 months

      Does the rule in question even apply to end users? All I had heard of it was that it put some kind of requirement on the website itself to identify people, which a person seeking out a noncompliant or foreign website presumably wouldn’t be the one violating?

  • BetaBlake@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9 months

    How about you just parent your children? But it’s not about the children, that’s just always the convenient excuse

    • Stillwater@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      9 months

      France passed a law requiring porn sites to verify age of all site visitors. Pornhub is blocking France instead of forcing its visitors to provide ID.

      • bender223@lemmy.todayEnglish
        9 months

        wow, didn’t expect that from france. I thought they, of all countries, would be less prudish than Texas about porn. 😬

        • ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          9 months

          Everywhere has religious people that think they deserve to control others.

        • Kaboom@reddthat.comEnglish
          9 months

          Texas isn’t the first. I think it was started by Germany? I know the UK banned women’s orgasms and Australia banned hentai. Heck, India apparently banned porn altogether, ineffectively.

          • Korne127@lemmy.worldEnglish
            9 months

            Germany didn’t do anything like that. Britain tried to ban porn like this but realized it’s a terrible idea and stepped back from it.

            • ohulancutash@feddit.ukEnglish
              9 months

              Ironically, it was PornHub’s parent company that was set to run the UK age verification scheme.

          • redwattlebird @lemmings.worldEnglish
            9 months

            Australia banned hentai

            Did we? My scientific search the other night proves that false, and I’m not on VPN.

            • Kaboom@reddthat.comEnglish
              9 months

              They banned the physical books, but they can’t really stop the internet

          • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
            9 months

            I know the UK banned women’s orgasms

            Why? To prevent British women from having expectations?

            • Kaboom@reddthat.comEnglish
              9 months

              Because female cum is urine according to the powers that be, and that’s too much for them.

    • oppy1984@lemm.eeEnglish
      9 months

      As one headline put it “PornHub pulls out of France”.

  • Devolution@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9 months

    Why do the French even need Pornhub when their basic movies are very porn adjacent?

    • FerretyFever0@fedia.io
      9 months

      I blame the French for 120 days of Sodom burning my eyeballs, and I just skimmed the Wikipedia article. One of them chose to print that instead of burning the notes. Anyways, why is the hub being blocked in France?

      • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9 months

        French politicians passed a law that requires porn sites collect pii (identity) in order to access the site. PornHub won’t violate the privacy and security of their users, so they simply block the locales that pass such laws.

      • merdaverse@lemm.eeEnglish
        9 months

        “Children should be reading good old stories like 120 days of Sodom, not this Pornhub filth” - probably some French conservative somewhere.

        • FerretyFever0@fedia.io
          9 months

          The Marquis de Sade was an elected official btw. He would’ve jacked off to shock sites. Says quite a bit about some of the French that it wasn’t burned. It should’ve been. No historical or entertainment value, just pure degeneracy.

      • tarknassus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9 months

        Protest on them trying to enact age consent laws.

        By showing the message rather than Pornhub’s vast library of adult content, Aylo “is communicating directly with the French people to tell them how dangerous, how potentially privacy-infringing, and how ineffective the French law is”, Solomon Friedman of Aylo’s owner, Ethical Capital Partners, told reporters in a video call on Tuesday.

        Paris has this year gradually introduced requirements for all adult websites to have users confirm their age with details like a credit card or ID document.

        In a bid to preserve privacy, operators must offer a third-party “double-blind” option that would keep the platforms themselves from seeing users’ identifying information.

        Edit - the sauce - Pornhub, YouPorn owner suspends access to French users over age verification law

    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      9 months

      Reminds me of the running joke I had with a French bloke in a place were I worked in about how Jacquie-Et-Michelle (NSFW) was an unmissable part of French Culture, which none of our other colleagues seem to - or at least admitted to - get.

  • meowmeowbeanz@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    9 months

    Peak French stupidity, this isn’t about protecting kids - it’s about building surveillance infrastructure. Back in 2024, critics already called this the foundation for a “Great Firewall of France”. Once you have the legal framework to block websites and force ISPs to implement monitoring, mission creep is inevitable.

    The technical approach is laughably naive. They’re essentially creating a centralized system that could easily become a database of citizen sexual preferences. Even with their “double anonymity,” you’re still creating digital fingerprints and metadata trails.

    Most importantly, it won’t work. Kids will just use VPNs - the same way adults are already doing. You’re not protecting anyone; you’re just pushing everyone toward circumvention tools while normalizing government control over what adults can access online.

    It’s perfectly French because it combines maximum bureaucratic complexity with zero practical benefit, all while creating new opportunities for state overreach. Classic.

    • xor@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      9 months

      i think it should be a little harder for a child to watch anal prolapse fisting porn than “click yes if you’re of legal age”….
      but… not a good excuse for creating a citizen surveillance database.

      • meowmeowbeanz@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        9 months

        Fair point on the current system being theater, but here’s the thing - any centralized age verification system creates exactly the surveillance database you’re worried about.

        The “harder than clicking yes” solutions all have the same fundamental flaw: they require collecting and storing sensitive data that becomes a honeypot for both state actors and bad actors. Upload your ID? Now there’s a database linking your identity to your viewing habits. Credit card verification? Same problem, plus you’re creating financial trails.

        The technical reality is that determined kids will circumvent anything you put in place. We already saw this play out - VPN registrations exploded 1,000% in France within 30 minutes. You’re not actually protecting kids; you’re just normalizing data collection on adults while teaching every teenager in the country how to use Tor.

        Better approach would be device-level parental controls that parents can configure without creating centralized databases. Let Apple, Google, Microsoft handle age verification through their existing account systems where the data stays local. That way you get actual protection without building the infrastructure for a surveillance state.

        The French solution gives you the worst of both worlds - ineffective protection AND mass surveillance. Classic government efficiency.

        • xor@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          9 months

          that’s a lack of imagination….
          just because i can’t think of a great solution doesn’t mean there isn’t one.
          off the top of my head, here’s a system without a centralized surveillance database:

          1. porn site gives you a random token,
          2. you then hash that with a time-stamp,
          3. get the token signed by your government ID system (like a dmv),
          4. return the signed hash.
          5. the government only knows that you used age verification for something somewhere….

          now the hard part is just explaining cryptographic signatures and hashes to people….
          of course people could still give a kid a verified account, but at least it’s harder for them to access it, i don’t need perfection….

      • mechoman444@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9 months

        Pervertube. Thisvid. Motherless.

        I just realized indicating these websites might have revealed a little too much about the kinds of porn I like to watch. ☹️

        • Machinist@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9 months

          Whoa. I haven’t heard of Pervertube. I have specific tastes involving a dirty mattress with no sheet or at least one overflowing ashtray.

          NEW PORN!!!1!!!1!!!

        • HugeNerd@lemmy.caEnglish
          9 months

          Which one pops the “you are leaving the trans section to go the straight section, are you sure?”

          I really don’t think I should be called out just because I like straight porn.

        • Jhex@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9 months

          hmm those equivalent, I would not call them better

          • Krompus@lemmy.worldEnglish
            9 months

            Spankbang alone blows PornHub out of the water in my opinion. So does Xvideos. I guess it depends what you’re into? I don’t like all of the incest shit on PornHub.

              • boonhet@lemm.eeEnglish
                9 months

                Good ol’ Anja und Katja definitely helped me out in my teenage years.

            • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pubEnglish
              9 months

              More of just a softcore/strip kinda guy. I find porn corny and offputting so I’m usually just browsing /s/, fapello, or the endless tumblr blogs for every fetish imaginable. (suggestions welcome).

              gallery sites, are my thing, I guess, redtube is another good one with a lot of solo stuff. Motherless, though I hate going there because some of that content is a little on the teen-obsessed side, and kinda creepy, but I do like the way the site is designed.

              <_< are we having this discussion right now?

            • Jhex@lemmy.worldEnglish
              9 months

              I see… and agree. In my world PornHub seems to be the most famous but I rarely visit.

              Seeing some “unexplored” options with all the suggestions here hehehe

          • Allero@lemmy.todayEnglish
            9 months

            Different, I would say. Best home vids? PH. More fetishes? Xvideos.

        • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
          9 months

          xvideos is a PH affiliate i think, if you noticed ph or these adjacent sites will have links to each other that have similar sanitationized like PH did.

      • SummaCummaCreampie@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        9 months

        Get Alldebrid, yes it’s paid but it’s cheap if you are just getting a vpn for porn you might as well get Alldebrid and you can use it to stream movies on stremio as well , then install the Alldebrid browser extension. Go to Adultdb.io click one of the links, scan the page with the extension. It will find the rapdigator link even if you don’t solve the captcha. Then click on the link in the extension and then it takes you to the Alldebrid page where you can download or stream the movie at basically the best quality. Also Alldebrid works with torrents so you can add torrents from xxxclub.to and usually it’s already cached and you can watch it immediately.

        Also great for VR just load the torrents into Alldebrid, then go to the Alldebrid media folder page on your headset with DeoVR or HereSphereVR then you can stream VR porn directly, no need to download.

      • Evotech@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9 months

        As a «produced porn» enjoyer…

        Usenet Stashdb Local stash instance

        Treat porn like you do tv shows :p

        I don’t really care for home video stuff

        • Allero@lemmy.todayEnglish
          9 months

          Home video stuff is arguably the best!

          Often filmed with nothing but desire to share the joy. Vivid, real, as opposed to the carefully curated studio plastic, or OF crap where people have it for the money, and with all the ethical and other concerns about it.

          But I know there are always two sides to look at the issue. Studio production is obviously more perfected, and that’s what many like

  • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9 months

    At first I suspected this was the French government demanding that 40% of the videos be made in europe using the French language.

    • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
      9 months

      Which is weird since I often don’t hear much spoken dialogue in most porn films other than fake moans and and orgasms. Also my focus tends to be elsewhere…

      • zqps@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        9 months

        “AHHH oui oui très bien! Plus fort s’il te plaît”

        Just hits different.

        • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
          9 months

          Stop with the classy French French! I want vulgar Canadian French.

          “Ahh tabernack! T’es une vrai p’tite pute! T’fesse va ê’re plein de ma cum comme u’poutine!”

          “Mais fuck you! Plus vite MAINTENANT… OUAI YEAH! COMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEE ÇÇÇÇÇAAAAA!!! Fuck me t’as une monstre cock!”

          • bss03@infosec.pubEnglish
            9 months

            “tres bien” is “very good”

            “si vous plait” is like “please”

            “plus fort” is like “more strength”

            I’ve never studied or learned French, but you can pick up some of this stuff from “throwaway” French in other context and the etymology shared with other languages.

            So, basically just the stock U.S. porn phrase translated to French.

            • Fillicia@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              9 months

              I’d argue that “plus fort” would mean “harder” in this context but I’m not an expert

              • bss03@infosec.pubEnglish
                9 months

                Agreed. I tend toward more literal translations for instruction/explanation – it made things stick better for me when learning Spanish. But, yes, in context “harder” is a definitely a more useful translation.

  • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
    9 months

    I remember when the French used to respond to this shit with fire instead

      • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
        9 months

        Bub, that’s always happened.

        Well actually in the past it was executed

        • FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.frEnglish
          9 months

          yea indeed, but they do it pretty much every time on everyone, dunno if that was the same before

          • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
            9 months

            France uses a hybrid healthcare system like Australia, doesn’t it? Disabling your own populace in a country with public healthcare seems like a bit of a own goal tbh.

            • FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.frEnglish
              9 months

              ofc their goal is not to pay more, it’s to silence and harm people for standing up against the government, or for having some political opinions

              The other reason is that some police units in charge of handling demonstrations like brutality, feeling powerful and harming people. They rarely get convicted because they can’t be identified, and even if they are, they’re pretty much only fired and don’t have any prison sentence

    • ssillyssadass@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9 months

      Because it’s simple and it works. When most people want to watch porn they don’t spend an hour researching their best option, they just go somewhere they know and watch something there.

      • Honytawk@feddit.nlEnglish
        9 months

        So instead of switching to a different website, they spend an hour researching, buying and setting up a VPN in order to still use PornHub?

        • j0ester@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9 months

          What do you mean “setting it up?” You just install it, and click connect (or chose a country with one of their servers) easily.

          • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
            9 months

            Unless they do research, they will have to buy one of the advertised VPNs.

            Both require time and energy.

            • brrk@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
              9 months

              search ‘free vpn’

              install first result

              click connect

              “research”

              Ok buddy

    • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      9 months

      I don’t really give it much thought, I load pornhub, click a recommended video, do my business and then close the private tab (yes I know this doesn’t hide your activity but it does stop pornhub showing as a search suggestion.). I’m not a connoisseur it’s a means to an end.

      • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
        9 months

        naughtymachinima for 3d stuff \

        For other real videos, gotta check whether the french fucks blocked others like xnxx, xvideos, redtube. I don’t know which ones are also owned by the same parent company

  • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
    9 months

    pornhub is so sanitized now, im guessing its mostly because of the OF videos. most of them are on sites that arnt affiliated with PH.