Pornhub Launches VPNhub, Its Own Virtual Private Network App (venturebeat.com) 68
"Adult entertainment" giant Pornhub is entering the busy virtual private network (VPN) space with the launch of its very own VPN service. From a report: Dubbed VPNhub, the new service is available for free via native apps on Android, iOS, MacOS, and Windows, though there is a premium subscription available that gets rid of the ads and promises faster speeds. In the U.S., this will cost between $12 and $14 per month, depending on the platform. VPNhub promises unlimited bandwidth, even on the free service, which is key given that Pornhub's core selling point is bandwidth-intensive video, while it offers around 1,000 servers across 15 countries. And it promises that it logs no user data.
Finally (Score:5, Funny)
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Just because you can get behind it doesn't mean you can use the back door.
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Unfortunately, they're either breaking the law or lying.
The indicate they have a Canadian server location which means they're required to log your information for a minimum of 30 days.
Oh the times we live in... (Score:5, Funny)
When you trust a porn site more to keep their word than all tech giants...
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Porn has been under tight scrutiny for a long time, so they're used to doing things by the book. The tech industry on the other hand has mostly had free reign for as long as it exists. Guess what that does to their morals.
Re: Oh the times we live in... (Score:2)
I can vouch for that. I've been scrutinizing porn for years now. ðY
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With a privacy policy governed by the laws of Cyprus - I'm not so sure they can really be trusted
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So what is a value VPN that is not going to spy on you or make you look like a pervert.
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I think you can. Their business model is simple, and if you are paying for the service you are a "customer". In too many other cases (google, FB etc), you are the product.
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Oddly enough, it's the fringe groups that typically prevent the grey-area creep of the trendy over-restriction of rights.
Examples:
The KKK and American Nazis help to preserve the freedom of speech - From the ACLU Website: "The ACLU is frequently asked to explain its defense of certain people or groups—particularly controversial and unpopular entities such as the American Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Nation of Islam. We do not defend them because we agree with them; rather, we defend their right to
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When you trust a porn site more to keep their word than all tech giants...
Why not, they've got nothing to hide... Just look at the videos on their site for proof of that.
Privacy Policy (Score:1)
Their privacy policy links to another website, probably a parent company, haven't researched it, but...
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Meh, sounds nice, but I'll pass. Thanks.
Sounds super expensive. You can get unlimited VPN for $40 / year.
Re: Privacy Policy (Score:2)
Re: Privacy Policy (Score:1)
Why would anyone use this when there are better VPN options, with better track records, made by real engineers, at a cheaper price?
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Why would anyone use this when there are better VPN options, with better track records, made by real engineers, at a cheaper price?
Why do you think PornHub has "fake" engineers? Their IT crowd manages to keep their site online pretty well despite staggering bandwidth requirements and presumably a lot of hostile actors trying to take it offline because, tits!
It appears they are pretty competent IT engineers from my perspective.
Whether you can trust their "do not log" promise is another story but that's not related to their competency.
Living in the goddam twilight zone. (Score:2)
I get where this is coming from, the business demand and so forth. I get it.
What I don't get is why it even has to be a thing. It's not hard to have reasonable privacy laws and given how important our communications are these days, have those same laws apply to the internet and so forth. That we don't is a biting indictment of our political process.
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A free unlimited VPN is still a welcome offer. You could theoretically use it to connect to another VPN, so that the first VPN can't see where you're connecting to and the second VPN can't see where you're connecting from. Unfortunately offering it in the form of an app makes this difficult if not impossible.
Re: Promising you don't != promising you *can't* (Score:2)
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A free unlimited VPN is still a welcome offer.
Maybe you should check out Kaspersky Secure Connection. It's not free, but then, free services typically make you the product rather than the customer.
https://usa.kaspersky.com/secu... [kaspersky.com]
USD $4.99/month
I'd trust a foreign provider long before a US-based one because of US TLAs, plus a foreign government has far less ability to affect you as an individual than one's own government.
Strat
British Porn Laws (Score:2)
Remember that Digital Economy Act?
So much for age checks.
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Isn't the company behind pornhub also lobbying to be the gateway for ID checks for porn in the UK?
Get paid by the idiots in the UK government to run ID/age gateway checks. Develop system to get paid for bypassing ID/age gateway.
Smart.
the porn... (Score:3)
The porn must flow......
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The porn must flow
I will face my porn. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the porn has gone there will be...oh, my god, have we been invaded by giant snails???
Here is how you know it's probably garbage... (Score:1)
This is how you know it's probably garbage and shouldn't be trusted, simply from reading the headline and summary: It's a service and an app.
Someone could offer a good VPN service.
Someone could offer a superior OpenVPN implementation.
Nobody will ever do both. The only reason someone would offer a nonstandard service that requires their own app, is if they're up to something fishy.
Question (Score:2)
I am a VPN user at work. I work remotely and use a VPN tunnel to get on the "local" network. I understand that browsing from work, through the tunnel, would tell the remote websites that my work NAT IP is the originator. But what if the government wants records of who, exactly is connecting to a site. They know the originator is the VPN provider, in my case work, wouldn't it be a simple operation to subpoena their connection records to know that my tunnel (and internal IP) initiated the connection to XYZ.co
I would subscribe, except (Score:1)
If I ever run for public office and they find out I supported a porn vendor, there goes my political career.
Unfortunately, "guilt by association" is a reality in my country.
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In my country the president just bangs porn stars and pays them to shut up about it.
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In my country the president just bangs porn stars and pays them to shut up about it.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
It's quite hilarious how people who are all for total freedom for anything sexual that isn't harming another or against the will of the participants suddenly get all Puritan when somebody they disagree with politically has a fling with an aging former porn video actress and start sounding like the old '80s "moral majority" Jerry Falwell.
Where was that same moral outrage when Bill Clinton left a long & sordid trail of sexually abused women and Hillary attacked any of th
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If you're looking for me to defend Bill and or Hillary Clinton, you have another thing coming.
I think you read a bunch of intent you wanted to see that doesn't exist into my statement. It wasn't a judgement of Trump's morality, just a statement of fact.
Trump is of course morally bankrupt garbage, but sleeping with porn stars while his wife was pregnant doesn't even crack the top 100 reasons why.
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If you're looking for me to defend Bill and or Hillary Clinton, you have another thing coming.
I think you read a bunch of intent you wanted to see that doesn't exist into my statement. It wasn't a judgement of Trump's morality, just a statement of fact.
I referred to "people" in my post and made an observation. Sorry if it was misunderstood. I was not and do not mean to imply an accusation towards you. You did not post anything in this thread I'm aware of that would indicate you would be included in the group I made the observation regarding. I don't know you from Adam.
Trump is of course morally bankrupt garbage, but sleeping with porn stars while his wife was pregnant doesn't even crack the top 100 reasons why.
I agree in large part. I find Trump to be an obnoxious loudmouthed egotist and opportunist who has no base ideological principles to speak of. He contributed heavily to and strongly supporte
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I just hope he sees more of the right things as being to his advantage than bad things.
On this much we can agree :-)
Why use this vpn over others? (Score:5, Informative)
https://thatoneprivacysite.net... [thatoneprivacysite.net]
There's too many better options.
TOTALLY LEGIT.. yeah, sure it is. (Score:2)
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Ok, I know, super low bar and all that.......
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Conservatives are priceless, seriously, how can you put a price tag on trash?
Now, THAT'S flamebait.
Thought you needed an example as you couldn't tell sarcasm from flamebait.
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Well then (Score:3)
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How much to start a VPN (Score:2)
At one point I thought VPNs would cost a lot of money to start up and run, but there are so many and the prices are so cheap. I think I paid something like $15 for 3 years of VPN service?
Having servers in all these regions can't be cheap. Having staff to look after them can't be cheap, and having to purchase the bandwidth can't be cheap. So how do they stay profitable?
Price it lower (Score:2)
Price it at $9.99/month and they'll get more takers.
Needs direct download APK (Score:2)
Some people need a VPN just to access the Google Play Store, and are some of the folks who are in most need of a VPN service. If they can only get it from the Play Store links, they're out of luck.