• Retreaux@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    I could never understand why porn sites have a share option, it’s absolutely baffling.

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      9 days ago

      If you’re logged into a social media account and encounter a “share on said social media” button, this is dutifully logged and provides metrics of the types of groups encountering said button.

      It’s not for sharing, it’s for metrics about what kind of people view the site/article/top ten list/hardcore porn. Targeted advertisement is cash money.

      • dan@upvote.au
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        9 days ago

        Metrics are usually tracked using a tracking pixel, which is invisible. They don’t need a visible share button to do that.

    • don@lemm.ee
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      9 days ago

      Porn sites are smart enough to know that dumb people will do dumb shit, and the sites capitalize off of it.

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    8 days ago

    Lol Facebook doesn’t block links to pornhub?? Who in a sane state of mind would share that kind of content on Facebook??? But then they block pixelfed for “safety” 😉

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      8 days ago

      You can especially now that the whole censorship thing is gone. Surprisingly literal porn links weren’t ever blocked but OnlyFans was 😂

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    8 days ago

    Wait, is Facebook ok with that?? This content isn’t advertiser friendly! What if a big advertiser discovers that their sponsored content is placed right next to pornhub???

    They definitely would be pissed about that!

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      8 days ago

      Does FB require a federally accepted ID be uploaded to have access? I would assume the states requesting that for pornhub should do so to share content from pornhub on a major social media site would you not?

  • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    I remember back in the golden era of Reddit AMAs with Victoria… There was an AMA with one of the higher ups at PornHub. She was like a site admin, so she had some high level knowledge of how the site actually ran, and she could see stuff like the site’s user statistics, average watch time, etc…

    Someone asked how often people actually use the “share to Facebook” button that is on every video. She said it happened more often than most people would want to believe. Like apparently there’s an entire subset of Facebook users who are just blatantly horny on main like it’s no big deal.