Old stories on news sites including WaPo are displaying embedded porn videos after the domain for the defunct video service Vidme was bought by a porn company
Stories on major news sites like ‘The Washington Post,’ and ‘New York Magazine’ currently have porn embedded in them.
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Discussion
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@campuscodi
Catalin Cimpanu
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Does this count as a supply chain attack too? 😂 https://twitter.com/...
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@caseynewton
Casey Newton
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The media bundle you never saw coming https://twitter.com/...
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@epro
Emil Protalinski
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As every publisher learns one way or another, embeds make everything so much easier in the short term but are a nightmare to deal with in the long term https://twitter.com/...
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@taylorlorenz
Taylor Lorenz
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This will save journalism https://twitter.com/...
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@s_m_i
Stacy-Marie Ishmael
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The internet is held together with ducktape and string. https://twitter.com/...
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@margarita
Margarita Noriega
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Wait, ad tech folks, how does the programmatic ad revenue work in this case? Are these sites also making revenue off of these videos? https://www.vice.com/...
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@davidbix
David Bixenspan
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That is...kind of impressive? This porn site that bought VidMe found a way to make it so that old VidMe embeds show their content instead. It would be one thing if it was just links forwarding to porn, but embeds now in the middle of all sorts of mainstream news? Huh. https://twi…
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@nerdpyle
Ned Pyle
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@Techmeme @mjgault Just went went from “Democracy Dies in Darkness” to “Democracy... after dark” <bow chikka bow wow>
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@stshank
Stephen Shankland
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Embedding content (from Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, etc) is totally great until it is totally not great. Other problems: embeds greatly increase linkrot risks, complicate website CMS/layout upgrades, and can break with cookie/tracker blocking technology. https://twitter.com/...
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@mathewi
Mathew Ingram
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/cc @internetofshit https://twitter.com/...
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@edbott
Ed Bott
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Tired: News media pivots to video. Wired: https://twitter.com/...
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@bdsams
Brad Sams
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@Techmeme @mjgault Google hates this one SEO trick