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2024 Pornhub Visitors by Operating System (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 week ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/dataisbeautiful@mander.xyz

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We reached 5.1% market share!

We need to grow that 0.5%!

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[–] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Yeah, except the states dumb enough to ban porn only have like 1% of the US population.

[–] FurtiveFugitive@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

That's not true. Texas is the largest state to be affected by the pornhub ban, and Texas makes up 9% of the US population. Including all ~~12~~ 16 of the states with pornhub restrictions, the total is actually 24% of the US population. Those are big enough numbers to swing stats.

Now you have to consider which users are more likely to know how to use a VPN on their system and realize that a lot of traffic is being re-routed through other states and countries.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Where are you getting 12 from? I'm seeing 8.

You're correct, though. As far as I can tell, nearly a quarter of all Americans are geographically blocked from Pornhub (unless they use a VPN).

[–] FurtiveFugitive@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

My source was a map posted to Reddit in July 2024. However after doing more research, Wikipedia reports it is now actually 16 states.

Emphasis mine:

February 2024: the Attorney General of the state of Texas sued Aylo/Pornhub for allegedly not obeying the state's legal age verification law.[141][142][143] As of March 2024, Pornhub and other Aylo-owned websites have blocked access in Texas, due to the adoption of an age verification law which usually mandates age verification through the use of an identity document. In states where Pornhub is blocked, which also include Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, Utah, Virginia, Florida, Nebraska, Indiana, Kansas, Idaho, Kentucky, and Oklahoma; a message is displayed featuring pornstar Cherie DeVille criticizing such laws.[

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Maybe those guys watched a lot of porn last year?

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I ran this through an AI, so take it with a grain of salt... But the percentage is actually, ostensibly, 24.6%.

That's more then enough to explain the descrepencies in the data.

Edit: The work ChatGPT showed, in case this is wrong.

Texas: 30.5 million

Florida: 22.6 million

Virginia: 8.7 million

Indiana: 6.8 million

Louisiana: 4.6 million

Mississippi: 2.9 million

Arkansas: 3.0 million

Utah: 3.4 million

Total population = 82.5 million

The total U.S. population is approximately 335 million.