Published 3 years ago

Some News Sites Inadvertently Show Readers Porn

Summary by Ground News

A porn site called 5 Star Porn HD bought the domain for Vidme, a brief YouTube competitor founded in 2014 and shuttered in 2017. Seemingly any vid.me embeds now redirect to the 5 Star porn HD homepage. For example, if you check out this New York magazine article about former House Majority leader John Boehner's "creepy kissy face," you will see photos of Boehner but also images of a man with a gigantic penis fucking a woman.

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Yahoo News

Why The Washington Post and HuffPost Featured Porn Alongside News

Notice anything...different while surfing the net lately? A porn company recently purchased the expired domain of a popular video hosting site, meaning that links embedded in tons of regular articles now direct you to said porn company. You’re welcome? On Thursday morning, Twitter user @dox_gay pointed out that hardcore porn was embedded in a number of mainstream news sites such as The Washington Post, HuffPost and New York Magazine. No, this wa…

3 years ago·Los Angeles, United States

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New York Post

Sites of Washington Post, New York Magazine get riddled with hardcore porn

Major news sites like the Washington Post, New York Magazine and Huffington Post got infiltrated with hardcore porn.

3 years ago·New York, United States

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Russia Today [🇷🇺-affiliated]

HARDCORE PORN proliferates across Washington Post, TEEN VOGUE & others after X-rated site takes over video hosting domain

Graphic porn videos have suddenly appeared on sites across the internet, including at news outlets like the Washington Post and even Teen Vogue, after a defunct video hosting platform lost its domain to an adult film company.

3 years ago·Russian Federation

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Business Insider

Mainstream sites were left displaying hardcore porn after an expired domain redirected to X-rated videos

Mainstream news stories took an eyebrow-raising turn after old embedded video links were redirected to 5 Star HD Porn.

3 years ago·United States

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Political Wire

Some News Sites Inadvertently Show Readers Porn

Videos on the websites of several national news outlets — including The Washington Post and New York magazine — suddenly began showing readers porn Thursday, Vice News reports.

3 years ago·New York, United States

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The Verge

Old Vidme embeds turn into a hub of porn after domain purchase

Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeHere’s (yet another) argument against using third-party embeds on your respectable website: Porn company 5 Star HD Porn bought the expired domain for video hosting site Vidme, which went out of business in 2017. This means that any websites with Vidme embeds now have porn on them. According to Motherboard, which reported the story first, the list of websites with unexpected porn embeds includes New York Mag…

3 years ago·United States

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