Pornhub’s parent company is changing its name to total nonsense::MindGeek, the parent company of Pornhub and other adult entertainment websites is changing its name to Aylo as it looks to get a “fresh start.”

5 points

Everybody is still going to know it’s them, and I don’t think they can get respectable engineers to work for them. There really isn’t any prestige in working there.

They should at least expanded to have another site up for general SFW video content to compete with youtube and produce originals, since they clearly have the tech for it.

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I had a meeting with MindGeek. Beautiful building, lots of great people. I’m not sure that your personal prejudices reflect the reality of the situation.

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It’s not a personal prejudice, I personally have no problem with the people there since I don’t even work in the same field, and I thought their video tech is great even though their content isn’t my thing.

It’s the sentiment I’ve heard from the tech people I know from big tech that they would never even consider working for Mindgeek no matter how much they pay, because they REALLY don’t want to be associated with working for PornHub.

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Dude, that’s akin to, “I wouldn’t touch her with a 10 foot pole” when you know full well they would touch her with a 4.5" penis.

They have great tech and are well funded.

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You can work on a porn site without seeing any porn. IIRC Pornhub’s test site doesn’t contain any porn so their engineers can work normally, just like those engineers who work on CSAM detection and reporting system never actually see any CSAM themselves.

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9 points

Aylo, rhymes with “heyo”, as in what you say after making a lewd joke.

“Your Mom changed her name to Aylo … Heyo!”

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They don’t rhyme though

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I always imagined that spelt as Aye-yo.

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21 points

whatever

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I keep trying to upvote comments lol. I’ll get use to it. Yes whatever. I feel this is like Google’s parent company becoming Alphabet. I don’t care and it doesn’t make any difference to my day to day usage. I’m pretty sure I learned just today that the company is Mindgeek.

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2 points

“Diverse” pornographic content sounds horrifying.

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Makes more sense than creating a parent company out of whole cloth and calling it Alphabet.

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Or Meta… Or “X”…

Come to think of it this is a pattern.

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