Surfing for Porn Just Got a Lot More Secure

Pornhub last twelvemonth launched a bug bounty programme offering money in exchange for information well-nigh vulnerabilities in its site, and at present the popular porn destination is taking its security efforts a pace farther.

SecurityWatch Pornhub on Th officially switched to HTTPS, so visitors can now access the site over an encrypted channel. Pornhub'due south sister site YouPorn volition also be making the switch on Tuesday, April four.

One time primarily reserved for financial websites, HTTPS, or HyperText Transport Protocol Secure, is a more than secure version of HTTP. When y'all run into HTTPS at the get-go of a web accost, you can residue assured that all communications between your browser and the website are encrypted.

In a statement, Pornhub Vice President Corey Price said the move to HTTPS will help ensure that what people exercise on the site "remains strictly confidential."

"Every bit 1 of the nearly viewed websites in the earth, information technology is our duty to ensure the confidentially and prophylactic of our users," said YouPorn'south Vice Presidnet Brad Burns. "The transition to HTTPS will become a long way in solidifying our users' privacy and protecting them against diverse types of malware. The information on our webpages will at present be encrypted, making information technology significantly harder for third parties to penetrate. At present, our community members can peruse our site even more safely, knowing they take that extra layer of security."

Pornhub and YouPorn are both among the peak 100 most visited websites in the world, according to Google.

Their switch to HTTPS comes just days after Congress voted to overturn a Federal Communications Committee dominion requiring ISPs to get permission earlier selling consumer browsing history and other data. As The Verge notes, HTTPS won't hibernate from your Internet service provider that y'all visited Pornhub, but will prevent them from being able to tell what you watched on the site.

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Angela Moscaritolo

Angela Moscaritolo is PCMag's expert on fitness and smart domicile products. Teaching yoga for nearly 10 years has helped her in evaluating a range of connected health products including fitness trackers, heart rate monitors, rowers, smart scales, stationary bikes, forcefulness training machines, treadmills, and more. Angela besides tests smart home devices from her ranch in Florida, including air purifiers, kitchen appliances, and robot vacuums, just to proper noun a few.