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Why does anyone care? Let people mark things as "adult" and move on. Youtube does this mostly, Blogger does this, why can't Yahoo and Tumblr?

minimaxir 13y ago
Because it makes advertising a lot more complicated.
danmaz74 13y ago
Youtube requires age verification if you want to see "adult" videos. I guess that many people want to browse that kind of content anonymously, so requiring the same on tumblr could cut the traffic a lot.
- vidyesh 13y ago
  Weirdly, if its embedded it won't ask you to login. No age verification required. So if you are paranoid and don't want to log in and start getting those videos in 'recommended for you' list. Just take the embed code put to it a .html file and open.
  - danmaz74 13y ago
    That's a good one for hackers - but not for most people ;)
  - ville 13y ago
    You can also just add data:text/html;charset=UTF-8, to the beginning of the code and paste it to your address bar.
- icebraining 13y ago
  On the other hand, it's probably harder to monetize users who want to remain anonymous, so they might not really care about that traffic.
  - danmaz74 13y ago
    That's possible. And I guess Yahoo knows how much of the traffic isn't porn related.
rieter 13y ago
Youtube is porn-free though.
- greggman 13y ago
  That depends on your definition. Youtube has plenty of nudity just not XXX stuff. Some of it is even provided by Youtube. Look under R rated movies.
  - rmc 13y ago
    nudity is very different from actual pornography.
    - greggman 13y ago
      What's porn and what's not is fairly subjective. I suspect the R-rated video for "Who's your Daddy" by Benny Benassi would be considered porn by some. Note: Both the R and PG-13 versions are (or were) on youtube. Also note the definition of pornography does not include nudity.
      - rmc 13y ago
        Sure there are some things that some call art and some call porn. There are some things that some call sex education and some call porn. There are some things that everyone calls porn. Go to xtube.com and you can find lots of things that no-one will disagree is porn. So what do you do about that sort of content on tumblr or any other site? (For the record, I'm pro-porn and pro-sex, sex is great!)
pselbert 13y ago
Actual adults aren't the only ones browsing the Internet. If my children can have pornographic content suggested while viewing an otherwise "reputable" site it makes monitoring their usage much harder. Expecting that minors will respect an "adult" label is laughable, and anybody suggesting so knows it. It only takes a moments ill conceived curiosity to see something that will stay with a kid (or a person in general) forever. Personally I hope that a company currently lead by a woman takes a hard stance on this issue.

minimaxir 13y ago

Because it makes advertising a lot more complicated.

danmaz74 13y ago

Youtube requires age verification if you want to see "adult" videos. I guess that many people want to browse that kind of content anonymously, so requiring the same on tumblr could cut the traffic a lot.

vidyesh 13y ago
Weirdly, if its embedded it won't ask you to login. No age verification required. So if you are paranoid and don't want to log in and start getting those videos in 'recommended for you' list. Just take the embed code put to it a .html file and open.
- danmaz74 13y ago
  That's a good one for hackers - but not for most people ;)
- ville 13y ago
  You can also just add data:text/html;charset=UTF-8, to the beginning of the code and paste it to your address bar.
icebraining 13y ago
On the other hand, it's probably harder to monetize users who want to remain anonymous, so they might not really care about that traffic.
- danmaz74 13y ago
  That's possible. And I guess Yahoo knows how much of the traffic isn't porn related.

rieter 13y ago

Youtube is porn-free though.

greggman 13y ago
That depends on your definition. Youtube has plenty of nudity just not XXX stuff. Some of it is even provided by Youtube. Look under R rated movies.
- rmc 13y ago
  nudity is very different from actual pornography.
  - greggman 13y ago
    What's porn and what's not is fairly subjective. I suspect the R-rated video for "Who's your Daddy" by Benny Benassi would be considered porn by some. Note: Both the R and PG-13 versions are (or were) on youtube. Also note the definition of pornography does not include nudity.
    - rmc 13y ago
      Sure there are some things that some call art and some call porn. There are some things that some call sex education and some call porn. There are some things that everyone calls porn. Go to xtube.com and you can find lots of things that no-one will disagree is porn. So what do you do about that sort of content on tumblr or any other site? (For the record, I'm pro-porn and pro-sex, sex is great!)

pselbert 13y ago

Actual adults aren't the only ones browsing the Internet. If my children can have pornographic content suggested while viewing an otherwise "reputable" site it makes monitoring their usage much harder. Expecting that minors will respect an "adult" label is laughable, and anybody suggesting so knows it. It only takes a moments ill conceived curiosity to see something that will stay with a kid (or a person in general) forever. Personally I hope that a company currently lead by a woman takes a hard stance on this issue.