> Why not fix the code that suggests rape videos? None of those titles say rape or child in them, and the article already covered that they have a blacklist of

> Why not fix the code that suggests rape videos? None of those titles say rape or child in them, and the article already covered that they have a blacklist of search terms. Ever played a videogame with a censored wordlist for profanity? People will still find a way to call you a racial slur, even if it involves some really creative uses of text to get around the filter. > Wouldn't it be better to just... not have that feature? Why isn't it an option to just turn it off? Related searches in a search engine is a pretty core feature, and it's not like it prevents people from just coming up with related searches with their own mind and typing them in manually. And your statement sort of applies to every facet of Pornhub. Uploading user submitted videos can be actively harmful. Comments can be actively harmful. Edit to respond to this bit: > Changing the code is within their power, yet they don't. I'm pretty certain it's not just taking search term and running it through a thesaurus or something like that. It likely correlates searches from users that make similar search terms. The code isn't really generating any suggestions, just aggregating correlated search terms. I don't have hard proof of this of course, but it's a very common implementation for related searches.