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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or any other myriad of porn sites, or torrents, or usenet, or still pornhub via VPN...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If this has any effect at all, it will just be to funnel users into shadier and shadier sites. At least PornHub is not actively distributing malware.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You youngins don't remember that there was always a risk of malware when accessing porn 🤣

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, memories! 🤣

I remember it taking like a half hour or more to download Shannon Elizabeth's strip scene from American Pie even though it was like 60 seconds and at 240p.