Another lovely endorsement ...

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http://money.cnn.com/2013/02/11/tech...=yes&hpt=hp_t3 We're not making any moral judgments here. But it is definitively a bad idea to visit pornography sites on your smartphone or tablet. Nearly one-quarter of malware on mobile devices comes from porn websites, according to a new study from Blue Coat, a Web security and optimization company. Mobile users don't check out porn sites often -- less than 1% of all mobile traffic is pornography. But when they do go to those sites, the risk of inadvertently downloading malware to their devices increases three-fold. That makes watching porn on smartphones a far bigger threat than viewing porn on a PC. ...

Interesting figure: "Mobile users don't check out porn sites often -- less than 1% of all mobile traffic is pornography."

Big Picture: What the affect of malware and viruses on porn sites really is on sales -- maybe that is the real enemy? This should give pause to rethink some of our preconceived notions.

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Originally Posted by pgmorin less than 1% mobile traffic? wow i'm suprise about that. I mean there 20% of the men that admit to watch porn at work.... The Ipsos Mobil-ology study, which tracks mobile device use in Canada, found 15 per cent of smartphone users between 18-34 indicate they access adult content on their device, though these numbers are undoubtedly understated.

CNN didn't reference their source of the 1% but of our own traffic PC vs. mobile; the Mobile hits are less than 5% -- that is a fact I can see. I don't age qualify the hits in but the 18 -34 group is not the majority of buyers. There is a real big difference between a looker and a buyer. Buyers are hesitant to use credit cards on porn sites. Porn sites have a terrible reputation for malware, browser hijacks, card banging, etc. in the public eye and for good reason.

I do expect the market penetration of mobile to increase -- and the exploits too, leopards don't change their spots, it is an uphill battle ...

I take back what I said; 90% of our mobile traffic is on a sub-domain so the percentage of mobile is much much higher when that is included.

But it still does not measure the total "porn traffic" on mobile.

The 1% figure is as ridiculous as that 15% being of all traffic. One thing to consider is the widespread use of mobile in 3rd world and developing nations. That traffic rarely buys internationally but is maybe 1/3 of the overall.

I don't see anyone managing ad network traffic commenting. However, that would only be the porn traffic they see but the total traffic numbers are available probably.


Then there are the comments on that CNN story:

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Frank Tim Robert Nas ? 7 hours ago − ↓ xvideos, youporn, pornhub, youjizz, etc.. all of these are safe, and many of them have mobile apps. problem solved... ------------Christopher Kidwell ? 4 hours ago − ↓ I doubt it is the pron sites themselves, it's probably the damned ADS on the websites just like any other website out there. I've never gotten a virus DIRECTLY from a website, I have had my antivirus software block something in the ads. Which is the main reason why I have said "NO!" to all ads even on Youtube and blocked them using AdBlock Plus or Noscript. Sometimes both. --------Mike Johnson ? 5 hours ago − ↓ It only makes up one quarter of malware, the other three quarters comes from AntiVirus, Spyware and Malware protection. Youporn makes me feel safe, thanks to them I'm not walking around with a loaded gun in my pants.

What the public thinks?

See beyond the 1% bullshit -- there is a real PR nightmare here ...

That is why the tablet with a wireless or a 4G connectivity will become the majority device seen in 5 years maybe.

Casual Internet users will not need PC workstations.

But the real problem of industry practices is being glossed over -- easier to just ignore it and cry about sales declines and tubes are the enemy ...