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 Australia introducing search engine age verification as part of porn crackdown
Australia's eSafety Commissioner has introduced a new Online Safety Code requiring search engines to implement age verification by end of 2025, restricting minors' access to pornographic and high-impact violent content in search results. Non-compliant
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News In Image-based abuse: from revenge porn to deepfakes Deepfake porn guides easily accessible via search engines, despite crackdown
An investigation by Glamour Magazine found that major search engines including Google, Bing, and Yahoo continue to surface tutorials, guides, and tools for creating deepfake porn despite stated crackdowns on nonconsensual intimate imagery. The
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News In Image-based abuse: from revenge porn to deepfakes Microsoft hooks up with StopNCII to tackle non-consensual deepfakes on Bing
Microsoft has partnered with StopNCII to integrate its hash-matching system into Bing, allowing non-consensual deepfake images to be identified and removed from search results. The article examines how this fits into a broader industry
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News In Image-based abuse: from revenge porn to deepfakes Google’s anti-deepfake tools for Search are getting better at hiding results and removing images
Google has updated its Search algorithms to suppress non-consensual deepfake porn results and expanded the scope of removal requests to include duplicate images. The article examines both the effectiveness of these new measures and
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News Google SafeSearch will blur NSFW image results by default
Google announced it will blur sexually explicit and graphically violent images by default in search results, even for users without SafeSearch enabled, as part of its Safer Internet Day initiative. Users can opt out
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News Team behind the Firefox Reality browser has been axed
Mozilla has laid off 250 employees and disbanded the Firefox XR team responsible for Firefox Reality, a promising open-source VR browser, citing COVID-19-related restructuring. The move is particularly significant for the adult VR industry,
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News Wordpress owner buys Tumblr, says porn will remain banned
Automattic, owner of WordPress.com, has acquired Tumblr and confirmed that the platform's ban on adult/NSFW content will remain in place. The purchase ends speculation that Pornhub might acquire the platform and restore porn. The
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Analysis Is Tumblr’s total ban on ‘adult’ content really for its users, or its shareholders?
Tumblr's December 2018 announcement banning all adult content is examined in the context of Apple removing the app from its App Store after CSAM slipped through filters. The article explores the impact on sex
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News Adult search portal BoodiGo passes 1m user milestone
BoodiGo, an adult-focused privacy-respecting search engine launched in 2014, has surpassed one million unique monthly visitors. The milestone is attributed in part to growing concerns over US privacy policy rollbacks under the Trump administration
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News Google’s making a change to Search rankings that adult sites will hate
Google announced it will penalize mobile search rankings for sites using intrusive interstitial pop-up ads starting January 10, 2017. The change disproportionately affects adult sites, which heavily rely on such ads. Google's own Adsense-served
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News Firefox’s new privacy feature lets you control which sites get your real personal data
Firefox is introducing a 'Contextual Identities' feature using 'Containers' in its Nightly build, allowing users to compartmentalize their browsing identities and control what personal data different websites can access. The feature enables simultaneous multi-account
