Pornhub Extorted After Hackers Steal Premium Member Activity Data

Similar to Ashley Madison data breach, vulnerable to extortion and various shenanigans.

Of course, in a sensitive situation such as that, even IP address can also be problematic, and your 3rd-party tracking software vendor gets that automatically.

If these clowns had hired someone smart instead of just copy-pasting some tracking code and throwing their whole user object at it or whatever, they would have given this some thought.

I'd have used the ability to proxy the MP tracking calls to my own server which most of these services offer but few use. That server would not keep any logs and would perform coarse GEOIP, remove the IP itself or zero the last 2 octets, and relay that information into MixPanel using custom attributes.

Just a quick back-of-napkin sketch, but even that was more thought than they put into it.

Getting compromised is more of a matter or time than ability. Someone's going to fuck up at some point.

They may need to retain certain information for laws, but they aren't obligated by law to also share that information with their analytics partners.

Brilliant talk.

Surely this is up to the client, or perhaps explicit bookmarking capabilities. Not implicit records of what you looked for in the past

Sometimes also for engagement, like feed tuning, but usually that's also mostly about selling it.

Not often for user-wanted features, though they might be thrown in, since the data is already captured (to sell it).

When companies mainly want the surveillance data to sell it, now there's a monetary number on it. And a monetary number can also be put on lawsuits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bork_tapes

> The subsequent leakage and coverage of the tapes resulted in Congress passing the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), which forbids the sharing of video tape rental information, amidst a bipartisan consensus on intellectual privacy.[8][9][10] Proponents of the VPPA, including Senator Patrick Leahy, contended that the leakage of Bork's tapes was an outrage.[11][12] The bill was passed in just over a year after the incident.[13][14]

How exactly could trans sympathy be "criminalized"?

I'll need to dig up a reference but I've seen multiple sources cite that that 1/4 watches a disproportionately high amount of trans porn. The top most commenter is spot on about how much harm our prudishness is doing to us all.

For accuracy it's worth stating this is only a recent occurrence.

Right now:

Nations with anti-LGBT laws: 50% Muslim, 44% Christian (2024)

  Half (33) of the world’s 66 countries that have anti-LGBT laws are nations where a majority of the citizens are Muslims.

  By comparison, 29 Christian-majority countries account for 44 percent of the countries that still have anti-LGBT laws on their books.

However this "predominantly Muslim" twist in the numbers is recent:

  In recent years, the number of Christian-majority nations with anti-homosexuality laws has shrunk, both through court rulings (Barbados, St. Kitts and Nevis and Antigua and Barbuda in 2022; Trinidad in 2018; Belize in 2016) and through legislative action (Cook Islands in 2023, Singapore in 2022, Angola and Botswana in 2019, Seychelles and Nauru in 2016, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Palau in 2014).

Uganda, with an 82% Christian population is famously severe in it's punishments for gay and queer sexual activity.

With the support and funding of US conservative Christians:

US religious right at center of anti-LGBTQ+ message pushed around the world

~ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/09/us-religious-r...

I know it's some sort of "trustworthiness" but that is objectively complete bs.

I live in one of those states. Most porn sites just ignore the law completely and the rest you can use a VPN.