What Is Pornhub?
Pornhub (pornhub.com) is a porn tube site owned by Aylo (formerly MindGeek) which owns other sites such as YouPorn, RedTube, and Brazzers. It offers free porn videos. It is known for its high-definition short videos that are often snippets taken from premium videos you would otherwise have to pay for the full versions. Pornhub also offers user profiles and for users to upload their own porn content. A user profile can also add friends similar to a social media site such as Facebook. According to its Wikipedia page, PornHub is the 13th most trafficked site in the world and only second to Xvideos in the pornography niche. Pornhub gets a lot of its traffic from search engines, particularly its category and tag pages which are often high-trafficked pages for some of the most browsed porn categories. As of December 2022, Pornhub gets an estimated 2.6 billion monthly views, according to SimilarWeb. And the Wayback Machine estimates PornHub to be founded on February 1, 2001.
Links and Profiles
Website: pornhub.com
Twitter: @Pornhub
Is Pornhub Safe?
I analyzed pornhub.com for malware and malicious content to check if it was legit or a scam. Here are the results:
First, I browsed the site pornhub.com extensively and then ran a malware scan on my computer with Malwarebytes and it returned no malware detection. I also ran a full scan with Microsoft Defender and no malware was found. Additionally, I was using Malwarebytes Browser Guard on my Edge browser while browsing the site pornhub.com and it allowed me to browse freely without suggesting any part of the site I visited was compromised.
I checked the site pornhub.com with online malware scanner Sucuri and it said no malware was found and that it was a low-security risk. You can see the same here: Sucuri scan for the site pornhub.com.
Sucuri says the site pornhub.com is a low security risk and doesn’t have malware or any important security issues.
Some hardening improvements can be made:
- Missing security header for
ClickJacking Protection
. Alternatively, you can use Content-Security-Policy: frame-ancestors ‘none’.- Missing security header to prevent
Content Type
sniffing.- Missing
Content-Security-Policy
directive. We recommend to add the following CSP directives (you can use default-src if all values are the same): script-src, object-src, base-uri, frame-src
However, these hardening improvements don’t impact the Sucuri grade.
To check this further I ran a parasite scan with Unmask Parasites on the site pornhub.com and it returned with a suspicious script warning. You can see the same here: Unmask Parasites scan for the site pornhub.com.
I have listed the script below:
var atatusLoad=function(){var c=document.querySelector("head");function e(){var t;1==(t={min:1,max:14448},min=Math.ceil(t...
Unmask Parasites calls it a “long suspicious script.”
I also checked the site pornhub.com on the online malware scanner VirusTotal and it isn’t flagged as malicious; however, it does have a negative community score. You can find the same here: VirusTotal scan for the site pornhub.com.
The malware scanners let you know if a site is safe to visit, but they can’t scan the contents of files you may download. For the best real-time protection, we recommend enabling cloud-delivered protection. It will assist in preventing you from downloading malware if it knows it is present.
In conclusion, Sucuri says the site pornhub.com doesn’t have malware. Unmask Parasites says the site watchersweb.com has 1 suspicious inline script. VirusTotal and Sucuri say the domain watchersweb.com isn’t malicious or blacklisted. Overall grade: Relatively Safe.
March 20, 2023 @ 14:29
MindGeek has been bought by the Canadian private equity firm Ethical Capital Partners (ECP). MindGeek owns PornHub, RedTube, and Brazzers.
January 14, 2023 @ 17:18
Pornhub gets so much traffic that they found it useful to buy the domain Pornhub.co so all the people who forget to type the “m” still get redirected to the Pornhub.com domain. Perhaps even funnier, you can find many reviews online for Pornhub.co as though people are unaware the actual site is Pornhub.com.
January 13, 2023 @ 19:29
I want to learn how to download pornhub videos.
January 13, 2023 @ 19:32
According to Pornhub, you can download nearly all premium content. However, you cannot download videos from people’s profiles if they are free videos. The reason you get to download the premium videos is that you pay for the subscription that then allows you to download the content and keep it. They are forced to do this to compete with other platforms that also allow you to download the content such as OnlyFans among other platforms.
January 13, 2023 @ 19:26
I want to see how to train your dragon on pornhub.
January 13, 2023 @ 19:13
How much does pornhub pay for your videos?
January 13, 2023 @ 19:23
Please refer to the Pornhub Amateur Program for how to make money uploading Pornhub videos.
January 13, 2023 @ 19:06
p o r n h u b was created by Feras Antoon. He is the owner of MindGeek and the founder of Pornhhub. There are many articles about him online. I believe he was a co-founder of Pornhub. He is not on social media even though Google links to a Twitter and Instagram account when you Google his name. They are not him. He is not a public figure. It is wise for most founders not to be so nobody dislikes them.
January 13, 2023 @ 19:40
Pornhub and MindGeek were founded by the same people. There were four co-founders. Pornhub and MindGeek were founded in Canada. The four co-founders are Feras Antoon, Stephane Manos, Ouissam Youssef, and Matt Keezer. The four of them were students together at Montreal’s Concordia University.
January 12, 2023 @ 21:36
I have been using PornHub for many years. Not much has changed over the years. Around ten years ago they made some changes to the category menu which I didn’t like because the categories I used to click on now require an extra click to open up the rest of the menu. But I presume they did that because they wanted to put their most used cateries to the top which allowed most of their traffic better navigation. And maybe it has been one of the reasons for their success. I don’t use PornHub that much anymore. I don’t particularly enjoy any porn tube sites nowadays. I used cam sites instead. But if I were to use a tube site, I would probably choose Xvideos first. I find browsing categories easier and something decent to watch easier than on PornHub. But PornHub is probably in my top 3 tube sites.