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Re:Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers with WebSockets by takdi on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @11:05AM (#12855482)
Not really. Pornhub is very late in tech. Their website is a lot buggy. A lot of thumbnails don't load. They were very late on HD. And you can't even pay with bitcoin. It would be perfect for pornsite. And their is still no Netflix equivalent for porn which is very expensive when you compare to a normal show which is a lot more expensive to make
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Re:Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers with WebSockets by cerrelio on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @10:59PM (#12861299)
Pornhub doesn't generate most of their money from subscriptions. It was never their primary business model to do that. It's mostly ad and referral revenue. I also think most tube sites run on thin margins or even at a loss. And like a commenter below mentioned, you can't do recurring payments with bitcoin. It's strictly a push payment, and even if there were a third party or service that could effect a recurring payment model, it would be too risky.

A good chunk of porn site revenue comes from rebills to people who forget to cancel their subscription after they've joined at 2am Saturday morning, drunk/high, needing to pound one out before passing out. (This is literally the description of a typical customer a porn studio manager gave me.)

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Re:Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers with WebSockets by ryan-c on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @11:34AM (#12855822)
I'm sure they don't allow payment in bitcoin because they want recurring subscriptions.
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Re:Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers with WebSockets by user5994461 on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @11:08AM (#12855520)
How could there be there be a NetFlix for porn??? Everything is already available for free.
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Re:Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers with WebSockets by brettz on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @12:00PM (#12856189)
We launched "Netflix like" Pornhub Premium last year. We license thousands of scenes from all the top producers. It's $9.99 a month with a free trial (real free trial, not the normal porn stuff where they charge you anyway). It's closer to say Hulu Plus though because you also get the regular Pornhub content without the ads and better quality.
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Re:Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers with WebSockets by tomjen3 on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @02:18PM (#12857713)
Personally I have two issues with subscribing to that: I don't want what I view traceable to me (hence I always use porn mode in my browser) and I wouldn't be comfortable handing my CC to a porn site, because I assume it would be very difficult to cancel.
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Re:Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers with WebSockets by brettz on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @02:35PM (#12857873)
Those are common stigmas we face with the subscription service. We are trying to leverage our brand to make it as trustworthy as possible.
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Re:Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers with WebSockets by nickpsecurity on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @12:52PM (#12856797)
"It's closer to say Hulu Plus though because you also get the regular Pornhub content without the ads and better quality."

That by itself could be a great market. Porn sites are notorious for inefficient, disgusting, and sometimes malicious advertisements. Getting the product without all that for low cost would appeal to many. I'm curious what the actual numbers are on one of the highest, trafficked sites. It could provide a nice, upper bound on what others might expect with their actual results being lower unless they're a niche operator like Kink.

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Re:Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers with WebSockets by brettz on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @12:59PM (#12856887)
I can't disclose revenue numbers but Pornhub Premium gets a few thousand new active members a day.
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Re:Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers with WebSockets by pault on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @02:23PM (#12857762)
What are your hiring practices? Do you mostly work with recruiters?
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Re:Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers with WebSockets by brettz on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @02:36PM (#12857879)
Not often no. I posted in yesterday's hiring thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12846216
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Re:Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers with WebSockets by takdi on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @11:12AM (#12855572)
Not at all. Nothing is available in full HD. Torrent are hard to find and die quickly.

But everything for movie and TV show is available for free easily but still everything is working great for Netflix.

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Re:Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers with WebSockets by icebraining on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @01:47PM (#12857415)
Not at all. Nothing is available in full HD. Torrent are hard to find and die quickly.

Actually they are available - including 4k, even VR - just not on public trackers :)

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Re:Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers with WebSockets by SixSigma on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @11:57AM (#12856142)
If you can't compete on price, you compete on service and quality
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Re:Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers with WebSockets by shams93 on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @11:27AM (#12855742)
Yeah the free sites are owned by the same German company, they basically jack your material as soon as it hit DVD, now that doesn't happen because they destroyed 90% of the industry.
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Re:Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers with WebSockets by 7Z7 on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @11:10AM (#12855540)
Just like TV shows..
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Re:Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers with WebSockets by user5994461 on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @11:13AM (#12855583)
Nah. TV shows can be hard to find (especially right after release) and of variable quality, plus the sites can be very shady with worse ads/adware than all porn sites combined [not to mention that they tend to be closed or ISP blocked fairly often].

Porn is reliably served by many _respectable_ sites.

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Re:Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers with WebSockets by EpicEng on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @01:22PM (#12857148)
'hard to find, as in, ' two second search on TPB or opening popcorntime'?
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Re:Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers with WebSockets by temp on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @12:39PM (#12856658)
>And you can't even pay with bitcoin.

Sounds like a good thing to me.

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