domains Major news sites serve porn after vid.me domain takeover

[lovedomains]

Websites of major news outlets such as The Washington Post, New York Magazine, and Huffpost, among others, shocked readers when their stories displayed NSFW videos, with no relevance to the story.
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[CraigD]

Websites of major news outlets such as The Washington Post, New York Magazine, and Huffpost, among others, shocked readers when their stories displayed NSFW videos, with no relevance to the story.
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I also noticed a few Australian news websites got caught out serving this content.

When I did a quick whois search yesterday, I noticed that the domain changed hands in 2017, and It was also reported at that time that the domain name had changed hands.

https://variety.com/2017/digital/news/vidme-shuts-down-video-app-1202628367/

It's kind of ironic that news publishers didn't notice this at the time, and/or didn't realise the future implications this could have.

 

[Josytal]

Traffic monetization, perhaps.