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> The revolution began with VHS, which moved porn out of the theater and into the home. This made watching pornography private, an advance that created millions
by ciupicri 16y ago
> The revolution began with VHS, which moved porn out of the theater and into the home. This made watching pornography private, an advance that created millions of new customers overnight. But to buy the stuff, you still had to venture out to the store, and who knew who you might run into?
But when you buy something online, doesn't the credit card company (or PayPal) know that you went to the store?
- rhizome 16y agoSure, but their point is that paying for non-theater porn was still a public act. Nobody's going to see you walking out of a website.
- ciupicri 16y agoThat's right, but you still don't have enough privacy.
- rhizome 16y agoYou're describing a value judgement ("enough" privacy) that is different for everybody where the story is describing a transformation in access methods that are the same for everybody.
- ugh 16y agoWhat rhizome said and most people don’t care whether their credit card company knows which porn they enjoy. As long as said company doesn’t write a letter to their boss or spouse or friends or parents detailing recently bought porn the knowledge of the company is inconsequential for the one who bought porn.
- HeyLaughingBoy 16y agoMost people don't care if a corporation "knows" they did something; they care if their neighbor knows.
- Dilpil 16y agoIn many cases people simply don't understand or think about what data is collected and out there. One of my friends at work was shocked when I informed him that our IT department might theoretically be able to check what websites we visited, and probably does. This friend was a software engineer.
- kijinbear 16y agoIt's always possible to use a prepaid credit card to pay for those things, especially if you don't want your SO to find out...
- ciupicri 16y agoI thought about this too, but is there a site offering this option? Besides that, I doubt that an US based company would be able to sell them in Europe or in Asia.