No matter how much YNOT attempts to resist trite, cliched coverage of trite, cliched subjects, sometimes we’ve just got to say “the hell with it” and give in to our baser urges. Thus, we are delivering a non-report about Halloween porn based on a non-press-release submitted by a...

SAN FRANCISCO – Patreon, a crowdfunding site where fans pay artists, writers, musicians, filmmakers and other creative individuals for exclusive access to work not available elsewhere, updated its terms of service last week, banning the sale of content vaguely classified as...

SAN FRANCISCO – Days after Twitter Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey launched a mea culpa tweetstorm admitting the social media platform doesn’t do enough to protect users, the company’s head of safety policy distributed an email outlining proposed changes to policies and the...

BERLIN – Thieves relieved a British pleasure products manufacturer of sex toys valued at U.S. $60,000 as the company was preparing to leave the Venus trade show in Berlin. The victims are calling the crime “the largest sex-toy heist in history.” “We had just celebrated the...

LOS ANGELES – The adult industry’s age-verification best-practices guidelines, in unwritten, informal form, precede the U.S. federal government’s recordkeeping regulations mandated by 18 U.S.C. § 2257 and 2257A. While the industry trade association Free Speech Coalition and its...

Many factors influence search engine ranking, some direct (like links) and some indirect (like social media endorsements by celebrities). One often overlooked factor that impacts Google’s arcane algorithm is organic click-through rate. Google plays its algorithm cards close to...

Inarguably, rank on search engine results pages (SERPs) can make or break a website. Equally inarguably, many of the site-design aspects that influence SERP rankings are within the control of developers. Traditionally, website developers have focused the majority of their...

If you thought Wi-Fi networks protected with the WPA2 protocol were secure, think again. Researchers have identified a flaw in the standard that can allow cybercriminals to decrypt commercial and consumer traffic. The flaw not only could allow hackers to steal passwords and...

Betcha didn’t see this one coming. In a recent article for no less august a publication than AdAge, Daniel Carter, vice president and director of strategy and creative at global media network Carat USA, called online porn a better gauge of audience attention than conventional...

A click-fraud malvertising attack that has hidden in the shadows for more than a year lost a major distribution vector when advertising network TrafficJunky and adult tube site Pornhub shut down a pathway that exposed millions of porn-site visitors in the U.S., Canada, U.K. and...