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Security sentient smut site Pornhub has decommissioned Flash and will swap to HTML5 in a bid to modernise and protect its estimated 60 million daily visitors. The site is famed for among other things offering a bug bounty to researchers who disclose security holes in the site upping payments and hiring staff to better compete …

  1. Gene Cash Silver badge

    Twitch has also gone to HTML5, so that's all the sites I'm interested in.

    The BBC still hasn't, but I've also rarely (almost said "never") seen a video add value to a news story.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      BBC videos are all bait. As you say, they never add value beyond the headline.

    2. shifty_powers

      Actually a lot of iplayer content is now available in html5. (Not all of it mind). I no longer have flash installed in firefox and it hasn't stopped me watching my usual stuff via iplayer.

    3. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      You can use the UAControl add-on for Firefox to set your user-agent to Chome/Android just for the bbc.co.uk domain, then you get HTML5 video. I don't know if there are other differences between the pages delivered to Android tablets and desktop browsers, but they seem fine to me.

  2. Muckminded

    Flash gets cock-up blocked

    Twenty years of letting script kiddies get in the back door is finally coming to a close.

  3. Lith

    Don't completely believe them.

    I'm going to have to spend the next few days watching every video I can to make sure.

    1. Crazy Operations Guy

      You'll need more thana few days...

      During one of PornHub's yearly reports on viewing statistics, I recall them mentioning they had over 500,000 hours of content, so I hope you have nothing to do for the next 57 Years...

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: You'll need more thana few days...

        Pretty sure a good number of them would be something you'd never want to see, and you could watch four of them at once via split screen. So you could probably get that down under 10 years, easy.

  4. Kobus Botes
    Thumb Up

    Only an expert

    The person(s) who come up with these musical and literary references is/are really good! I now also have a problem, in that Laurie Anderson will be stuck in my ear for the rest of the day. Could be worse, though, so there is that.

  5. allthecoolshortnamesweretaken
    Pint

    1

    "When even the pornographers think you've got a problem, you've really got a problem"

    Sub-heading of the week! Have a virtual pint, El Reg!

    2

    "Industry standard" - maybe it's just me, but whenever I hear that the hairs at the back of my neck sort of twitch.

  6. Graham Marsden
    Meh

    Y'know, one day I hope...

    ... that it might be possible to read a story like this without the "Huh huh huh, it's porn" schoolboy nonsense.

    Yes, some people like to watch adults engaged in consensual sexual activity. Others like to watch people engaged in sporting activity or romantic comedy activity or whatever. Big deal. A lot of them do it on their own, in private. Others do it with a partner.

    The fact that this site, on its own, claims 60 million visitors *a day*, is trying to protect its customers from malware and is part of a larger organisation with many employees takes second place to the "smut, heh heh heh..." sniggering, written anonymously behind the moniker of "Team Register" (is that because nobody wanted to have fingers pointed at them?)

    I could ask pathetic questions like: Did you all write it? Were you all clustered around one computer going "get a load of that" or perhaps you were all sitting in private cubicles, checking over your shoulder whilst doing "research"? but frankly I don't give a damn.

    Come on, El Reg, if it was any other site (eg the BBC as has been mentioned by others) the story would have been written in a completely different way and under someone's own by-line, wouldn't it? So how about we treat the Adult Industry (which is what it is) in an adult manner and leave the gutter-press attitudes to the hypocritical tabloids?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Go

      Re: Y'know, one day I hope...

      ... that it might be possible to read a story like this without the "Huh huh huh, it's porn" schoolboy nonsense.

      I can't really understand the sniggering either. You are all here because your parents liked a good shag. Deal with it.

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Y'know, one day I hope...

      Of *course* the story would have been written a different way on any other site. El Reg is noted for innuendos, snide comments, and puns in their articles. Note that this applies to articles on IT, space, politics, and general tech as well as porn. That's part of why we're here.

  7. AbeSapian

    Butt, Butt, Butt ...

    I thought the whole point of a porn site was to infect your computer.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Butt, Butt, Butt ...

      No, the point of a porn site is to make your keyboard unusable.

      And possibly teach you to use the mouse left-handed.

  8. channel extended
    Coat

    In the future....

    30 years from now the headline will read:

    "Adobe patches last hole in FLASH."

    And people will ask "What's Flash?"

    1. Adrian 4

      Re: In the future....

      Nope. Adobe will never find the last hole in Flash, much less patch it

  9. Anonymous C0ward
    Paris Hilton

    "millions of paying customers"

    Seriously, who the fuck pays for porn?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: "millions of paying customers"

      I pay for art I consider good, why wouldn't I pay for good porn?

      Plenty of free bad art of course.

  10. The Nazz

    Porn

    The only film that looks the same in reverse as it does normally.

    Ok, almost.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Porn

      Played in reverse it's an advert for sticky stuff remover.

      1. quxinot

        Re: Porn

        Played in reverse, you get some guy vacuuming a chick's face off with his willy, then taking his pizza back to work.

  11. x 7

    "Played in reverse, you get some guy vacuuming a chick's face off with his willy, then taking his pizza back to work."

    sounds like an episode of TellyTubbies with the NooNoo

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      sounds like an episode of TellyTubbies with the NooNoo

      So if you play TellyTubbies backwards...?

      1. John Brown (no body) Silver badge

        "So if you play TellyTubbies backwards...?"

        ...than all those strange sounds and noises start to make sense. "Pay taxes. Buy Starbucks. Eat at McDonalds. Satan is coming for you"

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