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Pornhub’s parent company is changing its name to total nonsense (www.theverge.com)
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Pornhub’s parent company is changing its name to total nonsense::MindGeek, the parent company of Pornhub and other adult entertainment websites is changing its name to Aylo as it looks to get a “fresh start.”

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[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They had huge scandals about revenge porn and child porn in the past. It was so bad, that they deleted a substantial amount of their library, just to be sure.

BTW the brand is still Pornhub, but the company using that brand gets renamed. Hardly anyone knew that name anyway.

[–] MakeItCount@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I only know the name MindGeek because I've a friend working there in Canada