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Re:Pornhub launches VPNhub, its own virtual private network app by esrauch on Thursday May 24, 2018 @02:13PM (#17146724)
The difference is that essentially no one minds a guy glancing at their id and handing it back, and no one cares if your coworker happens to see you going into a bar.

The law is a filter because of the obvious chilling effect: do you really want to risk an inevitable leak where your co-workers will potentially look up info about your porn habits tied to your real name?

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Re:Pornhub launches VPNhub, its own virtual private network app by stephenr on Thursday May 24, 2018 @02:17PM (#17146775)
> do you really want to risk an inevitable leak where your co-workers will potentially look up info about your porn habits tied to your real name

Why would it have your 'habits' tied to it? It's meant to ensure you're over 18 or whatever age - what possible reason would it have to identify individual URLs a particular identity visited?

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Re:Pornhub launches VPNhub, its own virtual private network app by esrauch on Friday May 25, 2018 @02:50AM (#17151223)
Without this verification you have high confidence no one can know. After this, you are suddenly trusting companies to do the right thing.

Renting a porn vhs and having the guy photocopy and file your ID is a much bigger deterrant than just having to show your ID to the clerk.

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Re:Pornhub launches VPNhub, its own virtual private network app by programbreeding on Thursday May 24, 2018 @02:41PM (#17146995)
>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?

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Re:Pornhub launches VPNhub, its own virtual private network app by alsetmusic on Friday May 25, 2018 @03:43AM (#17151451)
> 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.

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Re:Pornhub launches VPNhub, its own virtual private network app by brettz on Thursday May 24, 2018 @04:00PM (#17147741)
The ID verification is done by trusted third parties. There will be no link to a name and any browsing activity on Pornhub.
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Re:Pornhub launches VPNhub, its own virtual private network app by mykmallett on Thursday May 24, 2018 @07:39PM (#17149452)
The age verification is done by pornhubs own company, to think they won't use this information seems incredibly naive.
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Re:Pornhub launches VPNhub, its own virtual private network app by brettz on Friday May 25, 2018 @12:10PM (#17155095)
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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