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2 pointsthomasdd6y ago1 comments

Sorry for this Ladies and Gents, I know you don’t visit any porn sites. (I don’t visit any porn sites exactly as you don’t do that!).

Ok, I tell the truth: In my free time, I do visit many-kinds of porn sites (for research purpose only of course :),...

## This is what I find interesting: The usual concept of a “index-page“ of a porn website is to let you decide to: “ENTER” or “LEAVE”, the website. (Actually: Any user has always the 3-rd (third) option, to close the web browser window/tab! OK!

now....:

## My Question #1: Is anyone (except Me) disturbed by the fact that 99.9% porn sites, are linking the “LEAVE” action to: “google.com” or “disney.com”???

## My Question #2: Who invented schema like that? And why is anyone following this pattern?

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ksaj6y ago

It's not just porn sites. You'll see the same thing applied to other sin sites, such as for for alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, "adult novelties" and gambling.

I don't find it disturbing, but I think it shows a lack of development effort to basically cut/paste such obvious tropes from just about every other sin site on the Internet.

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