Defunct Ad Site Floods Internet With Porn


Unintentionally injecting the news with a lot more sex.

Today’s news is likely to hit our reader’s ears after their grandparents open up the Washington Post to read the political news only to find a big piece of meat staring them in the face. Major websites across the internet are being flooded with images of hardcore pornography after a porn company bought a defunct domain of a video hosting service that none of those websites took off their ad rolls.

Impacted websites include The Washington Post, Huffington Post, Kotaku, Uproxx, The New Yorker, and many, many, many more. Your best bet is to turn your ad blocker on and make vigorous use of it. Unless you’d like to see these ads in which case turn your ad blocker off and make vigorous use of it. The ads are coming from the lapsed domain for Vidme which shuttered in 2017.

Source: Vice.com