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by Theodores 4571 days ago
OMG! The porn!

Just a few icons away from news.ycombinator.com is incest-dream.com - don't go there! There are plenty of other porn sites surrounding the Hacker News favicon, call me naive, but I didn't think there was that much porn out there on the interwebs these days. Someone told me it was hard to monetize because you cannot compete with free. Plus you don't get a screen full of pop-ups of porn, 1998 style. Seems I will have to re-evaluate what the internet is used for.
3 comments
thinkpad20 4571 days ago
> I didn't think there was that much porn out there on the interwebs these days

...seriously?

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batmansbelt 4571 days ago
>Seems I will have to re-evaluate what the internet is used for.

Enjoy your "evaluating."

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krapp 4571 days ago
The internet is for porn, and everything else amounts to a rounding error.
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lsc 4571 days ago
Actually, this is not as true as it used to be[1] - streaming video of the regular kind is a really big deal.

[1]http://www.tomsguide.com/us/netflix-internet-bandwidth-media...

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corin_ 4571 days ago
Bandwidth isn't necessarily the best measurement of "what the internet is used for", for example porn may stream in lower quality on average, maybe more people hoard porn (download once, watch many times) as it's probably easier to remember the name of your favourite film than which random site to find your favourite porno on, plus the porn category includes pictures as well as video.

But I guess what the best measurement would be is subjective anyway, plus it's not so easy to measure anything like "amount of time spent doing X" or "number of people doing Y". Alternatively it's a valid opinion to have that bandwidth is the best metric, it's just not my opinion.

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lsc 4571 days ago
The thing that is interesting to me is that for a very long time, "Adult content" was what the vast majority of internet bandwidth was used for, by a tremendous margin. I remember in '01, one of my co-workers streamed CNN, after the twin towers disaster; In spite of working in the industry for several years, that was the first time I saw someone use streaming video over the Internet for anything other than demos (and pornography)

The fact that non-adult streaming video has surpassed adult streaming video (in terms of bandwidth used) is interesting because it means that the Internet is now a mainstream distribution channel for mainstream video.

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wdr1 4570 days ago
This remains as true as it ever was:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWEjvCRPrCo

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