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Fascinating that France is PH's second-biggest market, presumably after the US.

How is that surprising?

After the US, the three largest Western countries are Germany (which already banned Pornhub), the UK and France, but the UK and France are virtually tied in terms of population, so it was always going to be a tossup between the two.

Always wondered why latin america is not considered the "western" world (it surely is not on the east side of... whatever mark you put in the world. Actually if one uses the greenwich meridian, that would leave countries like Germany on the "east" side of the world).

Economics and sadly race.

Western world = prior colonial powers and their vassal states. Non-Western world = prior colonies that became independent.

TIL the US is non-Western

France usually has its own domestic alternatives for a lot of stuff. Even online. It's becoming less and less true (for example, instagram or tiktok are just as common there than anywhere else) though. So it could make sense to think that France would be a smaller market for PH than Germany or the UK.

I know Germany is similar to France in that regard, but I'm more familiar with France. And it also has a bigger population!

what makes you think it's banned in Germany?

https://netzpolitik.org/2025/porno-streit-vor-gericht-darf-d...

Skimming this it sounds like pornhub is/was at least partially blocked on the ISP level. Not sure about the extent of the blockage today but I could imagine that these blocks put a dent in their user numbers.

ah they just changed their domain to dot org to get around the block, most users visit sites through their search engine so I doubt many noticed. as of now in germany the org is the first result on google

Probably this: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Munich-Administrative-Court-Por...

it was always going to be a tossup between the two.

UK slang and this context give this a very relevant double meaning. Well played if this was intentional!

it was always going to be a tossup between the two.

UK slang and this context give this a very relevant double meaning. Well played if this was intentional!

Savoir-vivre.

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