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Tracking of porn-site visitors is mainly for Google to serve targeted ads = the porn-sites can earn ad revenue from Google depending on the numbef of daily visitors. Some porn-sites charge monthly subscriptions for normal access or for premiym access, like Netflix. This is part of business in the online world.
....... By your logic, the FBI/CIA/NSA should also be involved in Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, etc. ????
The FBI/CIA/NSA are mostly interested in major criminals like Muslim terrorists, pedophiles, drug traffickers, human traffickers, etc, not in porn-site visitors. The 3-letter agencies have their own methods for detecting and spying/tracking of such people, usually with zero-day exploits, hidden backdoors, secret FISA court orders served on tech companies/ISPs, etc.
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Since 1997 when pornography began migrating to the Internet, it’s been difficult to get a clear picture of who’s viewing how much of what when. Journalists, academics, government agencies, anti-porn groups, and the porn industry have all released traffic estimates that often disagree.
Who should we believe? Hard to say. All we can do is keep open minds and use our best judgment.
Recently, some intriguing new information came to light. The world’s most popular porn site, PornHub, published a trove of site statistics for 2017. This information can’t be independently fact-checked, so we shouldn’t take it as gospel. But to my knowledge, PornHub is the only major player in the online porn industry to release such data.
Alexa, the leading Web-traffic tracker, says that among the world’s tens of millions of sites, PornHub ranks number 36. But if we eliminate search engines (Google U.S. and its many country-specific affiliates), Web portals (Yahoo!), shopping sites (Amazon), and sites based on user-generated content (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit), if we focus only on sites that publish other content, then PornHub ranks number four behind only Wikipedia, Microsoft, and Netflix.
Meanwhile, among the planet’s top 100 sites, Alexa says that four others are also devoted to porn: XVideos (#39, based in France), BongaCams (#48, Russia), xHamster (#76, U.S.), and xnxx (#91, France). Together PornHub and these four account for more than 6 billion visits per month, nearly one a month for every person on Earth.
A spokesperson replied that the site relies on Google Analytics, a service of the giant search company that parses web traffic a zillion different ways. I use Google Analytics myself for the site I publish, GreatSexGuidance. The depth and breadth of information are astonishing — and I use only the services available for free.
Sites that pay get much, much more.
This is another very reputable site to consider its non biased articles which is also the owner of the Panopticlick UA test site:
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)The NSA is Tracking Online Porn Viewing to Discredit "Radicalizers"https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/nsa-t...it-radicalizersQUOTE
Sitting on the wire, the NSA has the ability to track and make a record of every website you visit. Today, the Huffington Post revealed that the NSA is using this incredible power to track who visits online porn websites, and to use this information to discredit those it deems dangerous. Their porn habits would then be "exploited to undermine a target's credibility, reputation and authority."
The story was illustrated with six individuals, none of whom are designated terrorists themselves. Instead, they are deemed "radicalizers," people—two of which the NSA itself characterized as a "well-known media celebrity" and a "respected academic"—whose speeches and postings allegedly incite hatred or promote offensive jihad.
The report raises the specter of abusing online viewing records to discredit other political opponents of the US government. The NSA document was reviewed not just by the NSA and counter-terrorism officials, but by entities like the Department of Commerce and the US Trade Representative. The USTR negotiates treaties (like the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership), and one could certainly imagine that the leverage from this program could be useful in pushing for the US position. In fact, EFF and three dozen civil society groups have already asked the NSA to explain if they are spying on those advocating for the public interest in US trade policy.
What it means? It means they're very interested to know your porn surfing habits if you're a someone very influential in public, VIP or politician documenting and recording it for future ransom use to discredit you when the time is right. It is a very indispensable method to "pull strings" and to make demands when "they need to.
Just imagine some black hat guy tells Donald Trump: "I know what you did there on the internet everyday and all the "ahem" websites you've been visiting. If you don't give into my demands, I'll be exposing them to end your career and reputation.
It is a very indispensable tool for powerful intelligence agencies to control political leaders and influential individuals to obey to their demands as a form of ransom.
Of course they're not interested to target the "nobodies", the technology existed to hold those who can make big decisions by the "legs".
Sep 18 2020, 10:06 PM, updated 6y ago
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