In the wake of this great democratization of flesh, we have seen the rise of highly trafficked websites whose business model has been built around offering free content to run along ads.
(And, just for fun, TechHive had 0 malware incidences out of 492 pages tested, thank you very much.)Īs pornography has become ubiquitous and free, the audience willing to pay for it has dwindled. As a point of comparison, Facebook, the world’s top-trafficked site, had only 127 incidences of malware out of 818,788 sampled pages YouTube, the net’s third most popular site, had 348 incidences out of 16,004,642 pages sampled and CNN had zero incidences our of 41,628 pages sampled. Their ad system was hacked and used for malware.”Īccording to Google Safe Browsing, of its 21,253 pages sampled over the past 90 days, Xhamster was found to have 1067 pages with malicious software. “For example, in the past we had such issues with one of the top five porn pay sites in the world. “The problem is that even reliable advertisers sometimes can be hacked,” a spokesperson for the site told the BBC.
the 46th most popular website in the world, and which Longmore found offered visitors a 42 percent chance of coming into contact with malware-claims that much of the malware problem is the result of lax security from third-party advertisers.
