Why not just make ads show on SFW content and have some sort agreement with advertisers. It's not like google has to block everything or maybe they have privilege.
The problem is identifying the content as SFW in the first place...
Tumblr’s anti-porn algorithm is flagging basically everything as NSFW
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#32Oath is desperate to put more ads on Tumblr, because they massively overpaid for it ($1 billion) and have been throwing money at it ever since (100s of millions). I guess because of the way the content is displayed they can't just segregate nsfw stuff into a demonetized stream, but if they think they can turn Tumblr into a mainstream site that shows family-centric ads, they clearly don't understand what they bought.
This is clearly Tumblr's Digg moment. They are going to have a 100% write down on this one. It is also worth adding Twitter has built a reasonable ad business and they are full of just as much porn as Tumblr. Google actually shows ads for porn and other adult services on their platform. If any of the higher ups at Verizon are reading this: - Fire everyone involved in the NSFW filtering. Clearly this wasn't even teste…
> They are going to have a 100% write down on this one.
They already did that (the goodwill portion anyway) in 2016 before selling to Verizon.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2016/07/18/yahoo-r...
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#33My feeling is that this may be the breakthrough moment for Mastodon.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
> That's what you get when you want to be PC I'd hardly consider this "trying to be PC". https://i.imgur.com/cgGx4JR.png This is more about bowing down to America's backwards views on sex and nudity, most likely in order to appease advertisers and/or Apple.
I can't imagine the advertisers being too hot on literal nazism and white supremacism, though. At least I hope not.
Well, you wouldn’t think so, but a lot of the anger on Tumblr the past few days has been that they’re destroying major communities (more than just NSFW; they deleted everything tagged with “chronic pain”, for goodness sake, and how is that relevant?), but leaving all the Nazis alone.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tumblr also allows me to search for raygold and PTHC does that mean they approve of child pornography now? I don't believe that the fact that they've restricted a pretty small set of porn-related keywords suggests that furniture is more likely to be caught by tumblrs filters than nazi content, which is the claim the article appears to make.
I think the point is to highlight the "sex is worse than Nazis" logic behind this prioritization.
I think the reality is that someone important somewhere went on tumblr and said "hey we can't advertise on this, there's porn everywhere!", rather than them trying to filter things out in order of unpleasantness.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tumblr also allows me to search for raygold and PTHC does that mean they approve of child pornography now? I don't believe that the fact that they've restricted a pretty small set of porn-related keywords suggests that furniture is more likely to be caught by tumblrs filters than nazi content, which is the claim the article appears to make.
I think the point is to highlight the "sex is worse than Nazis" logic behind this prioritization.
Yeah, I get that. But the article seems to specifically claim that "the site’s contingent of Nazi bloggers remains relatively unscathed" in the face of the anti-porn algorithm as opposed to "LGBTQ blogs, selfies, cartoon animals, and pictures of furniture" which are "definitely suffering".
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#37I wouldn't label the algorithm as anti-porn. I'd label it "how to lose user base and drive the company to a hole" algorithm. It's not likely that it detects actual porn, it's basically failing miserably and the result is abandonment. That's what you get when you want to be PC and yet another "me too, I do cool stuff too" company. There are lessons to be learned here, and for that - thank you Tumblr :)
... Wait, what do you think PC _means_?
I'm not sure anyone knows what PC means anymore.
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#38I read a lot of posts on Reddit bemoaning Tumblr's decision to stop carrying adult content. A lot of people there and here feel that this decision spells the end of the company. That may be the case, but I never understood how Tumblr was profiting from hosting all that adult content to begin with. I presume they're selling ads, in which case disassociating themselves from anything that could be considered pornographic seems like reasonable business logic.
I'm not questioning whether Tumblr's decision is fair, or morally right or wrong. I just don't see how Tumblr was generating enough revenue to cover their costs to begin with. Is image hosting really that cheap?
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#39Tumblr is truly dead without NSFW stuff. Nobody cares for anything else in it (except you and 10 others, outlier, to pre-empt your reaction).
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Perhaps nazis are less affected by this than pictures of furniture?
The rest of the article seems to suggest that everything is affected, then she casually mentions that nazis are less affected. Is she deliberately accusing tumblr of punishing everyone but nazis? Why is that not the headline then?
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