We reached 5.1% market share!

We need to grow that 0.5%!

  • merthyr1831@lemmy.ml
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    9 days ago

    jokes aside it’s probably because of US states banning porn sites, and Apple makes up for like 80% of US phones

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        8 days ago

        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.

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          8 days ago

          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).

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            8 days 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.[

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        8 days 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.