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35% of internet traffic is porn https://www.webroot.com/us/en/resources/tips-articles/internet-pornography-by-the-numbers https://www.webroot.com/us/en/resourc

• bigbubba 6y ago
  That says 35% of downloads, which might mean as you say. But it may also be using the word as it is commonly used by the general public; referring specifically to browsers placing a file in the user's '~/Downloads' directory. That page doesn't seem to clarify. It's unclear if 'streaming' is counted as 'downloading.'
  • throwaway_45 6y ago
    I guess you are right, but to me even streaming videos are downloaded to your computer. I also have seen the 30% number of other sites so I thought it looked reasonable.
• LordDragonfang 6y ago
  That's a web blocking software using inflated, completely unsourced numbers to sell a product. The Forbes article I linked called out this exact thing: >Web filtering companies used to always release competing figures on the number of porn sites they blocked, but these numbers were almost certainly boosted to get sensationalist headlines and to seem competitive with other filtering companies that filtered "less" adult sites. For example, N2H2 claimed there were 260 millionpornsites (ed. correction: pages) --haha, one for every American citizen! :) Conservative groups are always coming up with porn figures that are crazy high, too, especially with regard to children's exposure to porn.