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Comment by greggman | Hacker News Reader

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?

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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.

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.

That's a good one for hackers - but not for most people ;)

You can also just add

  data:text/html;charset=UTF-8,

to the beginning of the code and paste it to your address bar.

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.

That's possible. And I guess Yahoo knows how much of the traffic isn't porn related.

Because it makes advertising a lot more complicated.

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.

Youtube is porn-free though.

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.

nudity is very different from actual pornography.

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.

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!)

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