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Advertising. I remember seeing tons of not-quite-porn ads from them even during superbowls.

They stopped those fall 2013.

So, long after those ads had made them a household name?

That's quite specific. Do you know what the impetus for them to stop was?

New management I think?

New CEO (Blake Irving)

He did a Reddit AMA after starting: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/23v7f3/hi_im_blake_ir...

I remember it being surprisingly good!

I was get YouTube video ads for them everyday not long ago.

Are they profitable?

$139.8 million net income in 2017.

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