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0 pointsswhipple11y ago0 comments

I think this would tremendously backfire. It wouldn't be too difficult to figure out which companies have leaked customer data, which is now being used for extortion, and they'd likely lose more money than they could gain from the ad clicks.

Reputable porn sites tend to be more secure than your average company website specifically because they know that privacy is important to their viewers. Being known for leaking your viewer data would be suicide.

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4ndr3vv11y ago

The sites themselves wouldn't likely leak these data, rather it could be compromised.

From the article: "All that's needed are two nominal data breaches and an enterprising teenager that wants to create havoc."

notahacker11y ago

A very substantial proportion of porn viewers don't restrict their browsing to "reputable sites", and a very insubstantial portion of porn viewers have the will and inclination to retrace their browsing history trying to work out which ad network or tracker beacon is responsible for the disclosure in order to report them to site owners which may or may not be part of the scam. It's not as if nobody is selling clicks to websites making amateurish attempts to persuade you to pay up or face investigation.

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