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Pornhub Is Now Blocked In Almost All of the U.S. South
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this post was submitted on 01 Jan 2025
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I wouldn't quite call it a paywall. This article is free with an email sign up. They discussed this before and not sure I believe it but their reason/excuse for free email sign up was to combat AI scrapers. They noticed their articles were getting scraped by a few well known AI scrape and repost "news" sites.
How long until somebody automates the scraping with throw-away email addresses?
Wrong question. How long ago, you mean.
That's a bs reason, email paywall bypassing is so easy that it could just as well not exist.