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I didn't see any mentions, but xvideos.com and others are already blacklisted from Google in some countries[1]. You never see results from the domains xvideos.c
by BoppreH 5y ago
I didn't see any mentions, but xvideos.com and others are already blacklisted from Google in some countries[1]. You never see results from the domains xvideos.com, xhamster.com or youporn.com, but mirrors and pornhub.com are still there.
The search pages contain reference that some results were removed "because that URL was reported as illegal under German youth protection laws"[2].
There's been news about a campaign about strict age checks[3], as mentioned in the article, but no reports of the final decision, and the list of sites doesn't match what is actually banned. I also don't see how pornhub.com is different from the others in this regard.
I wonder what else is blacklisted...
[1] They are blocked in Germany and Greece, but not in the US, UK, and France, from a quick VPN test.
[2] https://www.lumendatabase.org/notices/9415 https://www.lumendatabase.org/notices/9415
[3] https://happymag.tv/pornhub-and-xhamster-germany/ https://happymag.tv/pornhub-and-xhamster-germany/
- forgotpwd16 5y agoPornhub recently purged all unverified content from the platform whereas in other platforms you can still make account and upload whatever you want. Maybe it's because of that.
- BoppreH 5y agoThat would indeed fall under "German youth protection laws". But it doesn't match what the articles claimed, that the proposed law was to add stronger age checks. And it's a hilariously ineffective law if clicking the first google search result still takes you to the same website, but at a different domain.