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Comment by rjdj377dhabsn | Hacker News Reader

Why are so many people paying for premium or even making an account at all?

The amount and variety of free porn is already enormous.

No clue but don’t some states require that you prove your age to view content? That would force you to share private information that could be leaked like this which is even more worrisome.

No it just requires you to use a VPN.

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

Maybe it’s similar to onlyfans where people get to chat with or receive messages from a model. People also create accounts to upload content.

Yeah, if users end up paying for this leak, this unfortunately ends up, practically, being a stupidity tax...

EDIT: Best argument for paying for porn is to support the performers, but paying for a generic porn streaming service hardly seems the best way to do this.

Why do you have a HN account? The internet is full of words.

I can't post on HN without an account. How many people upload videos there? (Assuming that it is even possible for an average joe to upload porn there).

An HN account also doesn't even require a verified e-mail...

Why haven't we've been flooded with spam yet?

Just too small I think. It's neither hosted on a common forum software or worth targeting specifically. If you turn on `showdead` in your profile you can see the caught spam. It's usually pretty thin on the ground, and when it does it occur there's almost no diversity, suggesting just 1 bot source being interested in the site at a time.

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