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Gfycat.com shuts down on September 1 and all Gifs will be taken down (www.ghacks.net)
submitted 3 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 17 points 3 years ago (1 child)

This is insane. I wonder what other relatively large internet service will go down.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (4 children)

    Apparently PornHub already lost 80% of their traffic due to age verification laws. I'll add the source when I'll get back to it.

    Edit: https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/3/23782776/pornhub-blocks-mississippi-virginia-age-verification-laws

    Edit 2: Maybe I misunderstood, see below comments

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I feel like that can't be true, I imagine a huge amount of pornhubs users are international

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    It’s a poorly written sentence (not surprising as it’s The Verge lol) but I think they mean they lost 80% of traffic from Louisiana when they started enforcing age verification in that state which is why they now just block access entirely to states that enact these laws instead of bothering with the age verification.

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