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Find His Porn: Evil Website of the Week
- twodayslate 15y agoThere was a free checker like this a while back that used CSS :active links to check which sites were visited. Looks like these guys just monetized it.
- Tobu 15y agoWhat the internet knows about you (inoperant in current Firefox and Chrome): http://wtikay.com/xxx http://wtikay.com/xxx
- gfodor 15y agoOf course, my first reaction to this is to figure out a counter-business to beat the detector. So it goes.
- wanorris 15y agoSo go register hidemyporn.com or something and get to work. For bonus points: secretly build both types of services and sell to both sides in an arms race. You could even offer an extra premium tier of each that defeats the non-premium tier of the other.
- philwelch 15y agoThis comment reminds me of my radar detector, which is vulnerable to a police radar detector detector, but which itself has a radar detector detector detector.
- sequoia 15y agoI thought the author's pointing out of the supposed untruth that you don't have to download anything because you have to have Java to be a bit silly. 'Youtube claims you don't have to download anything to watch videos.... but AHA! You have to have Flash installed! Thought you could put one over on us, ehh?!?!' Not really... Java and Flash are extremely common browser plugins.
- hornbaker 15y agoHmmmm, I think I'll launch IsSheASpy.com and sell spy-software detection software.
- rgraham 15y agoIt'd be better to sell the software to clean up evidence in the first place. I bet you could sell it. It might not be a terrible business idea. Sigh.
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- citricsquid 15y agoWell, here goes... I'm "investing" $20 for the rest of HN to find out how accurate it is. Okay so it's scanning... it has found a bunch of development things, gifs from my website work which isn't porn -- recycle binned stuff -- okay watching this, it's just bringing up every single file that contains a list of extensions; it's included under "videos" things like "DVDMaker sample" which certainly aren't porn. I don't think "passwordField.png" located in programData/skype is pornographic. The websites it has found don't appear to be any I have ever visted, although some are (and they're popular sites) about half aren't. Either it's fabricating the websites or I've visited sites that embed data from these other sites? Plausible I guess. What an awful product, albeit effectively marketed.
- wr1472 15y agoSo you admit to having porn on your PC? I think it has done what it claims. :D
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- _delirium 15y agoSounds pretty fraudulent in that case, since the advertising materials clearly imply that it's detecting porn, not just listing all image files on the computer. I mean bad classification would be one thing, but not even attempting, while claiming that it does, seems like another. Maybe demand your $20 back?
- citricsquid 15y agoI probably should, here's an example of the images it returned as porn: http://screensnapr.com/e/PEB3NG.png http://screensnapr.com/e/PEB3NG.png
- sramsay 15y agoYeah, but what exactly is happening in "foliage grass short?"
- Revisor 15y agoFind my porn? Why, it's right there in the folder called Porn next to Movies and Music. And not only does my SO know, we talk about what appeals to us. To be honest about it to each other and above all to myself belongs to a healthy and open sexuality.
- ianferrel 15y agoMine is in a directory called "Not Porn", which accomplishes all the same things, and is also a fun joke.
- larrys 15y agoHad a customer a few years ago, a non-profit in NYC. They had a link on their site which said either porn or nude women. When you clicked the link you brought up their donation page.
- abstractbill 15y agoI'm genuinely curious - how many people in this day and age still feel the need to hide porn? Doesn't that seem a bit infantile?
- jjcm 15y agoI hide mine in the folder on my desktop labeled "porn". Neither myself or my girlfriend have any problems with it, but I know plenty of my friends who would be offended if they saw it. On my laptop I keep it in a truecrypt folder with a password I share with the girlfriend (because she adds to it and uses it, not because she wants to spy); that way if I have any stuff I need to do at work with the laptop I can be comfortable knowing it's not going to pop up in a presentation. I think what's changed since I was 16 and had a deeply hidden folder is that I'm no longer embarrassed about it, I just worry that I'll accidentally offend someone else.
- JohnLBevan 15y agohttp://xkcd.com/981/ http://xkcd.com/981/
- ja27 15y agoTruecrypt filesystem with a copy of Portable Firefox, Portable VLC and image viewers.
- rsanchez1 15y agoYeah, just put it in the "cloud", or on one of those tube sites.
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- ja27 15y agoI do. Not so much from my wife, but from the kids and co-workers. Nothing like seeing a dude's browser history pop up on the conference room projector.
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- Jgrubb 15y agoWell this is sure to put a stop to guys watching porn when their women aren't looking.
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- Ryan_IRL 15y agoStartup idea: Build a registry for girlfriends (current or potential) that are offended by porn.
- loire280 15y ago$20 for a one-time scan? Assuming their SEO is as honest as their business model, this site must print money.
- jonmwords 15y agoTotally. With that name, they probably don't have much SEO work to do at all.
- slig 15y agoFuck SEO. With a tool that does exactly and trivially what the costumer is looking for and appeals to a target niche so perfectly, and $20 a pop, I bet they can pay to be the top ad.
- _delirium 15y agoIf this report is accurate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3301295 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3301295 then it might be closer to say a tool that pretends to do exactly and trivially what the customer is looking for, and bilks a target niche out of money without actually doing it.
- Tobu 15y agoThe point was, snarfing $20 every time someone feels insecure is not an honest business model.
- mxavier 15y agoThis service may serve a purpose for men as an early indicator that their SO has communication issues. I cannot speak for anyone else but I for one would not want to be in a relationship where my SO was spying on me like she was my probation officer.
- thomasgerbe 15y agoNot to mention is watching porn while in a relationship that big of a deal?
- bethling 15y agoIt is to some people - I know I'd be bothered by it. Mostly due to my own insecurities. I'd wonder "Why?", and wonder what I'm not doing that he wants. For some it might been seen as a light form of cheating. I think that it's a sensitive enough topic that if you're doing it without your partner knowing that you're likely treading into a potential problem. (For the record, I feel like searching your partner's computer for anything is a gross violation of trust - more so than watching porn without the other person knowing)
- codabrink 15y agoIt depends on what kind of relationship you have. Traditionally, and what seems right to most people is a relationship with a level of commitment towards the other. I'm not saying this is always true, but that level of commitment does have benefits, usually resulting in a stronger relationship because of the trust developed.
- xpaulbettsx 15y agoAssociating watching porn with lack of commitment sounds like something out of the 50s. Nobody(*) contemplates leaving their SO for some person on a website (or in a movie, or on TV), and porn isn't an exception.
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- slig 15y agoRWW is linking to that site without a rel="nofollow". No such thing as bad PR, eh?
- jonmwords 15y agoOOH. Good point. I'll update the post.
- solutionyogi 15y agoIt feels like this guys' read Patio's blog and decided to create a product which appeals to women. I would love to know the kind of money these guys are making.
- vaksel 15y agoNot much Alexa ranking is 11 million, that means it get something like 100 hits a month
- VMG 15y agoThis is also what I took from the story. The title should be "Business Idea Of The Week". I admit that the service is morally questionable, but the simplicity and execution is intriguing. There have to be similarly trivial ideas that can be turned into businesses if you look hard enough.
- dhimes 15y agoBut some things just aren't worth doing.
- itmag 15y agoPeople really have girlfriends who won't let them watch porn in peace? Hell, where I live, most chicks watch more porn than do the guys.
- tlrobinson 15y agoOut of curiosity, where do you live?
- itmag 15y agoIt's called Sweden, buddy. :)
- leeoniya 15y agoso that's where my porn is! AWESOME! (brb)
- raganwald 15y agoMy current agreement is, “You can look at anything on my computer you want, just ask me first.” Looking without asking is a game misconduct. My failing to disclose something when asked would likewise be a game misconduct. It’s just like allowing the police to search, but asking for a warrant first. Agreeing that we have to ask first puts up the hurdle of triggering a conversation.
- TruthElixirX 15y agoStill seems sort of shitty.
- rgraham 15y agoWhy not 'I trust you' and if something is an issue or a potential issue we can talk about it and try to reach an agreeable resolution?
- jcromartie 15y agoTwo things: First: As a society, we should really examine the kind of impact internet porn is having on the lives of our young men. There is a growing body of knowledge around porn-induced ED in 20-somethings, among other myriad ways it negatively impacts the health and productivity of individuals and relationships. Second: Who actually saves porn anymore? (EDIT: it's not a "huge body of knowledge"... yet, it's growing)
- slig 15y agoTheir copy says that they scan for it also in the browser's history.
- shin_lao 15y agoIt scans for cookies and history as well.
- bitops 15y agoWhat is ED?
- rglullis 15y agoErectile dysfunction.
- CWuestefeld 15y agoSorry for the tangent, but why does this word get a "y" in the "dys", when any other "dis" word is spelled with an "i": disturb, disrespect, discombobulate, disconcerting, etc.
- bryanh 15y agoPrivate browsing mode, available in all leading browsers. Wouldn't that effectively hide all traces of any browsing history locally, be it nefarious or otherwise? That kind of response begs the question, if you have to hide it, is it wrong or not? Or is it more you don't want to be showing person Z some funny video and it autocompletes... something rather embarrassing. Regardless, these guys have hit a nerve, can't see why they won't be printing money in the coming weeks with all the exposure they'll get.
- safeaim 15y agoI might be talking out of my ass, but I'm not sure if all browsers clear flash cookies, even in private mode.
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- JadeNB 15y ago> Wouldn't that effectively hide all traces of any browsing history locally, be it nefarious or otherwise? No; on the Mac, `dscacheutil` still knows about the sites you visit during private browsing, and I am certain that similar logs exist on other OS's. (Of course, your ISP also knows what sites you're visiting, but I guess that's what you meant by 'locally'.)
- sixbrx 15y agoGuys, both recent Windows and any unix-like OS support SEPARATE user accounts! I wouldn't trust anything less... EDIT: In Windows, just beware to edit the ACL for the private user folder so that no other users can read its contents. I was very dissapointed that Windows 7 didn't do that by default. Files under the other users' folders by default are amenable to global search in explorer.
- rokhayakebe 15y agoBut who downloads porn on their pc?
- simonsarris 15y agoOf course installing Picasa desktop and asking it to index the whole drive's photos will do pretty much do this exact thing for free. In my dream world this website would be setup so that when someone clicks "Buy" it would simply go to a static page that reads: Congratulations! We've empirically determined that you need more communication in your relationship.
- jzb 15y agoBut do they still get the $20?
- pavel_lishin 15y ago$20 is pretty good for relationship counseling.
- Tobu 15y agoA Picasa scan would work much better, insofar as it would, in fact, work. What images I've saved have the site's autogenerated numeric filenames, which from citricsquid's report would get ignored by this thing's piss-poor heuristics.
- Shenglong 15y agoDetecting porn eh? This reminds me of China's Green Dam initiative, which ended up banning Garfield, claiming that it's porn. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-06-15/green-dam-it-chinese-software-blocks-garfield/1714266 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-06-15/green-dam-it-chinese-s...
- tlrobinson 15y agoI'm going to create "Find Her Porn Finder". It will detect when this piece of crap is installed on your machines and email you with the suggestion to break up with them immediately.
- gwern 15y agoPart of the point of OP was that you don't even get a thing to install.
- bilbo0s 15y agoThey could make a fortune selling the list of names of women who bought this software. Then bill that service out as something like 'Girlfriend Screening'.
- tdfx 15y agoI've found, from personal experience as friends/neighbors/family's unofficial tech support person, that there's a surprising number of women that look at porn. Whereas guys might blush when their viewing habits are exposed, women would probably live the rest of their lives in shame. Maybe "Find Their Porn" would open up a greater market? Most guys laugh at the prospect of their girlfriends/wives being mad about looking at porn, but they would probably fall into a spiral of insecurity if they found out their significant other was looking at other guys for sexual pleasure.
- namank 15y agoWoah...thats what everyone's worried about? The fact that it doesn't accurately find porn?! I can't even get past the fact that I'm supposed to allow a website to go through the contents of my disk! For crying out loud, it doesn't even have SSL or any other third party verfiers!
- huuleon 15y agoI think you should reduce the price and get feedback to increase the quality of your product. $20 is quite expensive for just some invalid information. Maybe charge somewhere form $1-$5. Get more people to test it and find more ways to better your product.