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>what possible reason would it have to identify individual URLs a particular identity visited?

Money. Marketing. Targeted advertising. Etc, etc, etc. Pornhub (and others) are completely free and use more bandwidth than I can wrap my head around. How do you think they pay for that stuff?




> Pornhub (and others) are completely free and use more bandwidth than I can wrap my head around. How do you think they pay for that stuff?

Pornhub sells a subscription service with additional features / content.


The ID verification is done by trusted third parties. There will be no link to a name and any browsing activity on Pornhub.


The age verification is done by pornhubs own company, to think they won't use this information seems incredibly naive.


Incredibly naive? I work for Pornhub, the last thing we want to handle is PII, it brings no value and has security risks.




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