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Pornhub goes dark in Arkansas after age verification law kicks in::Pornhub operator MindGeek has blocked all users in Arkansas from the site after the state’s new age verification law went into effect.

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[–] Spacemanspliff@midwest.social 103 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's the second one. I saw article where they talked how Florida was the first to pass it, pornhub put time and money into developing what they needed to comply and saw a 90% decrease in traffic because nobody wants to hand over their ID for free porn.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.world 94 points 1 year ago

Wouldn't even want to hand over my ID for a paid service.

[–] remus@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

After MindGeek started complying with the Louisiana law earlier this year, the company said traffic dropped by 80 percent.

It’s literally in the linked article lol

[–] Lem453@lemmy.ca 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pornhub would make more money simply starting a vpn service rather than try to gather IDs

[–] Selmafudd@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ohhhh fuck is it viewer's age verification.. I assumed it was the people in the porn... As if this is gonna stop horny kids from seeing porn

[–] Default_Defect@midwest.social 18 points 1 year ago

It's to stop people from watching porn, they don't care about kids.

[–] deong@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

yeah, the smart teenager is going to be charging the adults in his life $50 to get their porn working again.

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Pretty sure PH already requires ID for people in porn. That's why they wiped half the uploads some years ago pending accounts verifying themselves.