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by Freak_NL 820 days ago
> “We have been asked to be more rigorous in enforcing our ToS and must comply,” Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia told TechCrunch. He declined to say which company asked Gumroad to enforce stricter rules.

This refusal to even name which payment provider is being an ass irks me, and makes me worry that this may just be a convenient excuse to get rid of adult content 'because the payment providers made me do it'.

Gumroad already was hostile to adult content by forcing anyone looking for sex-related content (regardless of its type) to repeat every search by explicitly ticking the 'Show NSFW' checkbox way down the bottom of the filter list, and have to repeat this for every search, with no way of opting in in the settings.