Originally published at: Ad server domain name changes hands, sending hardcore porn to mainstream websites | Boing Boing
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First check the ranking to see if the porn is helping or hurting.
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From “link rot” to “link money shot”.
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Those websites’ brands could have been seriously damaged had the porn merited fewer than 5 stars.
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Be careful what you inline: Defunct video-hosting domain used to inject smut flicks into news articles, more
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Vid.me once upon a time hosted user-submitted videos, and allowed them to be included in webpages using HTML <iframe> s. Websites thus could embed those videos in their coverage, and have the content served from vid.me’s systems.
In 2017, vid.me closed its doors, and was acquired by another video-hosting biz called Giphy, which Facebook is trying to snap up.
Sometime after vid.me shut down, the domain was updated so that it pointed to the very NSFW website of Five Star HD Porn, the name of which should give you an indication of the nature of its content. It is likely the domain was changed at the start of this month, judging from its WHOIS records.
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I remember that Five Star had some money problems; but it is a shame to see them reduced to this to make rent.
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I blame Delroy.
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ohhh this guy is restoring an old BuddyL fire engine! let me just see WHAT IN HOLY HELL
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Well, “artful welding” does sound kinda hot…
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I wonder if this affects any congress critters’ websites… 
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“Old website… 2017”
Yeah, I’m not loving how completely ephemeral the web has turned out to be…
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Of course it has. Their content is now being carried by mainstream websites!
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I’m still surprised how many websites and even news organizations embed Tweets instead of quoting them. They really need to take the kind of precautions that Techdirt does, and quote the Tweet in addition to the embed so that if the link goes stale they will still have a story.
Embedding 3d party content as a source is just setting oneself up for this kind of thing. And the more we expect something to work forever the more we are likely to do it. The number of embedded YouTube videos without back up local content, for instance, is monstrous, even here on Boing Boing. Frequently the post doesn’t even characterize what happens in the video, so if the embed dies the post will be utterly without context.
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The Vice article leads to this Atlantic article from last month, which talks in great depth about link rot, which this sort of thing is another symptom of. Check it out, it’s a long but interesting read.
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I swear there was a brief bump up of sales when adult friendfinder ads briefly showed up on Christian friendfinder.
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Sooooo … what would be the addresses of some of these web sites now hosting the hard core videos? You know, just so I don’t accidentally click on one.
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Yeah, that almost everyone treats web content as stable makes the transient nature of it all the worse - even websites that don’t rely on embedded content often have serious problems. They change their server set-up, they move stuff around, the html and scripting becomes unsupported… The whole notion of “archives” becomes almost laughable.
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Link rot is a real problem. Even big companies that should know better like Microsoft have endless amounts of link rot in their own documentation.
It’s infuriating when doing development work against something that’s not the latest and greatest only to find links that 404, go to pages that have been updated to scrub mention of the older stuff I was looking for, or code samples that go to dead end sites that don’t serve the content anymore.
Archive.org is often a savior in these cases.
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It is terrible, these links are everywhere; I was on PornHub the other day, and it was filled with porn. 
“In case of a meltdown in the nuclear reactor, click this link for instructions, whattodointhecaseofameltdown.gov.uk”
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The world keeps turning and humans keep turning with it.
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