Age verification: A Decade of Coverage
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Image-based abuse: tracking the law, the tech, and the gap between them
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News In Age verification: decade of coverage Aylo lobbies Apple, Google and Microsoft for device-level porn age verification
Aylo has written to Apple, Google, and Microsoft urging them to implement age verification at the device level rather than the site level. The company argues that site-based age verification is fundamentally flawed, citing
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News In Age verification: decade of coverage Pornhub says UK traffic dropped 77% after age verification laws as users flock to non-compliant sites
Pornhub's parent company Aylo reports a 77% drop in UK traffic following age verification requirements under the Online Safety Act, effective July 2025. Rather than reducing porn consumption, users have migrated to smaller, non-compliant
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Analysis In Age verification: decade of coverage The UK’s new age verification law for porn starts July 25, 2025: Here’s what it means for users
This article examines the UK's Online Safety Act age verification requirements taking effect July 25, 2025, which will compel porn sites and social media platforms to implement robust ID, facial scanning, or bank card
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Opinion An $8 billion OnlyFans sale would prove the creator economy has beaten Big Media
The article examines the reported $8 billion potential sale of OnlyFans by Fenix International to US investment firm Forest Road Company, analyzing what such a deal would signal about the creator economy versus traditional
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News Pornhub 2024 in Review: Female users up, animated porn dominates, and an increase in ‘mormon’ searches
Pornhub's 2024 Year in Review data reveals that female users grew to 38% of the site's audience, hentai topped searches for the fourth consecutive year, and animated content continued its dominance with a 28%
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News In Age verification: decade of coverage Pornhub will be blocked in over 25% of US states from July 1: Indiana, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky and Nebraska added to the growing list
Pornhub's parent company Aylo will block access to its sites in five additional US states (Indiana, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, and Nebraska) from July 1, 2024, due to new age verification laws, bringing the total
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News In Age verification: decade of coverage Chaturbate’s Texas lawsuit payout shows US is serious about age verification
Chaturbate's parent company Multi Media LLC settled a $675,000 lawsuit with the State of Texas over non-compliance with online pornography age verification laws. The settlement signals that US authorities are increasingly willing to enforce
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Opinion VR porn in sperm banks? More signs of adult VR going mainstream
The article examines two recent developments as evidence that VR porn is becoming more mainstream: Cryos International's new UK sperm bank in Manchester offering Pico VR headsets with Pornhub access to donors, and Meta's
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Analysis Queering adult content: recategorizing porn for the ethically-curious
This article examines how mainstream pornography's categorization systems reflect and reinforce heteronormative, white male-centric norms, and explores how queer, feminist, and ethical porn producers are challenging those systems through performer-driven tagging, site specialization, and
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News In Age verification: decade of coverage ‘Providing ID for online porn every time is not a solution’: Pornhub disabled in Texas
Aylo has blocked access to Pornhub and its sister sites in Texas following the state's introduction of mandatory age verification laws for online porn, with Texas AG Ken Paxton filing a lawsuit against the
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News Aylo wins millions of dollars in copyright infringement case
Aylo (formerly MindGeek) has been awarded $2,157,000 in statutory damages plus legal fees in a California copyright infringement case against the operators of the pirate porn site Good Porn. The ruling is notable given
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News SyncBrowser brings streaming and simpler interactivity to SyncBot and a long list of third-party toys
VALOR&TOUGHNESS has launched SyncBrowser, a free web browser that uses AI (branded PornGPT) trained on over six million videos to sync remote-controlled sex toys with online porn across major sites. The tool supports devices
