Visa and MasterCard ban Pornhub over abusive videos

Re:Visa and MasterCard ban Pornhub over abusive videos by totony on Friday December 11, 2020 @12:31AM (#25382664)

Pornhub has always had trouble with payment processors. They even had to make their own stripe.

Porn is so ill viewed that this is hardly a surprise. Plenty of disgusting content is published to most user-generated content platform, yet the easy target is always porn. The old "protect the children" used yet again for some dubious purposes.

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Re:Visa and MasterCard ban Pornhub over abusive videos by mtnGoat on Friday December 11, 2020 @12:41AM (#25382708)

Made their own stripe? You mean cut out the middleman? Lots of companies with large processing volume do this. Pretty normal, it saves a lot of money, any gateways or ipsp dealing in high risk take hefty fees.

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Re:Visa and MasterCard ban Pornhub over abusive videos by totony on Friday December 11, 2020 @12:52AM (#25382767)

You're right, but I think since gateways are so hard on non-mainstream content like porn it was made out of necessity rather than cost savings.

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Re:Visa and MasterCard ban Pornhub over abusive videos by suifbwish on Friday December 11, 2020 @08:47AM (#25385630)

Non mainstream? Porn hub has more monthly users than Amazon prime, netflix, Hulu and Disney+ Combined

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