Google, Facebook secretly tracking your porn-viewing habits
5 years, 5 months ago

Google, Facebook secretly tracking your porn-viewing habits

Hindustan Times  

If you think watching pornographic material in the “incognito” mode will not let anyone know, you are mistaken. Google, Facebook and even Oracle cloud are secretly tracking the porn you watch even when you switch on the “incognito” mode on your laptop or smartphone. A new joint study from Microsoft, Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pennsylvania that investigated 22,484 sex websites using a tool called “webXray” revealed that 93 per cent of pages track and leak users’ data to third-party organisations. The researchers - Elena Maris, Microsoft Research; Timothy Libert, Carnegie Mellon University; and Jennifer Henrichsen, University of Pennsylvania - said they successfully extracted privacy policies for 3,856 sites, 17 per cent of the total. Statistics vary as to the amount of overall porn activity on the internet, but a 2017 report indicated porn sites get more visitors each month than Netflix, Amazon, and Twitter combined, and that “30 per cent of all the data transferred across the Internet is porn”, with site YouPorn using six times more bandwidth than Hulu.

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3 years, 6 months ago

Pornhub: More than 30 women sue streaming site over lack of consent

The Independent  

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Searching porn on Google in UP? Govt will now monitor and send messages to internet users
3 years, 10 months ago

Searching porn on Google in UP? Govt will now monitor and send messages to internet users

India Today  

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Pornhub nukes website, removes millions of videos uploaded by unverified users
4 years ago

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India Today  

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Pornhub Is Inspired By Facebook And Twitter To Deal With Its Neglect Problem, But Can It Be Trusted?
4 years, 1 month ago

Pornhub Is Inspired By Facebook And Twitter To Deal With Its Neglect Problem, But Can It Be Trusted?

News 18  

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Pornography gets a pandemic boost, India reports 95 per cent rise in viewing
4 years, 8 months ago

Pornography gets a pandemic boost, India reports 95 per cent rise in viewing

India Today  

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Pornhub sees 95 per cent spike in Indian viewership during coronavirus lockdown: Report
4 years, 9 months ago

Pornhub sees 95 per cent spike in Indian viewership during coronavirus lockdown: Report

Firstpost  

While the rest of the world has It seems that India has taken quite fondly to adult website Pornhub while being stuck at home over the coronavirus lockdown, and this despite the site being officially banned in India. March saw a continues increase in traffic from India, the report said, adding, that on 24 March, there was 23 per cent …

Google, Facebook and Oracle secretly track you watching porn even during 'incognito' mode
5 years, 5 months ago

Google, Facebook and Oracle secretly track you watching porn even during 'incognito' mode

India TV News  

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