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• ZiemekZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  At least OF came to their senses and they’re still thriving.

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  • cheese_greater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I almost wonder it was a guerilla marketing success story in terms of that whole debacle. Like i don’t think they were hit with anything but derision and snark.

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    • davidgro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My guess (and I think I read other people guessing this) was that the banks were pushing them to ban porn, and by announcing it the way they did, they were able to get cancellations data proving that they would die, so if the banks wanted any money from them at all in the future they had to back off, and did.

      If it was marketing, then it probably backfired enormously - OF barely had competition that I heard of before then, but certainly did immediately after the announcement.

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      • postmateDumbass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I thought the creators all learned to code.

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      • crispy_kilt@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Why would banks care about porn? All they should care about is making money. They’re literal banks afterall.

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    • aniki@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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      • cheese_greater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        About as low-stakes as it gets lol

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• cheese_greater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ladies and gentleman, I’m about to surgically remove my head to avoid losing my shirt, please don’t question my authority/methodology…

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