14 DAY TRIAL // Your Internet Service Provider may know that you're watching porn, but they won't know "exactly" what videos you're watching. Well, if you're a fan of Pornhub that is.
After playing a prank on all its users by telling them the videos they watched were being shared over social media, Pornhub revealed that it was switching to HTTPS while also supporting encryption sitewide by default. Fellow site YouPorn is also following in the same footsteps, expecting to migrate to HTTPS on April 4.
The announcement comes just days after the US Congress announced its decision to repeal restrictions imposed by the former FCC leadership in regard to the data the ISPs can and cannot sell to third parties, including web browsing history. While it's true HTTPS won't exactly stop those ISPs from knowing you're visiting Pornhub or YouPorn, it will stop them from seeing what videos you're watching.
Safer for users
"Here at Pornhub, with more than 70 million daily visitors, we wanted to continue our concerted effort to maximize the privacy of our users, ensuring that what they do on our platform remains strictly confidential. With the switch to HTTPS we are able to protect their identity as well as safeguard them against exposure to malware by third parties," said Corey Price, VP.
The two companies are obviously serious about the security of their users. Over the past few months, both companies announced they were launching bug bounty programs in order to encourage security researchers to look into its systems and dig out bugs that could affect people's safety and privacy.
According to Google's most recent Transparency Report, only 3 in 11 adult industry portals found on the top most visited 100 websites in the world support HTTPS encryption. Now, two more sites join the list.