goodbye to porn tumblrs

So today some of the people who have porn tumblrs got an email that reads in part as follows:

We wanted to give you a heads-up that we’ve made some changes to our content policies. Starting July 5, 2017, blogs that primarily contain explicit content won’t be visible to minors, people who are using Tumblr in Safe Mode, and people who aren’t logged into Tumblr.

(Emphasis added.)

Put it another way: Verizon/Yahoo/Tumblr is sweeping the porn Tumblrs under the rug, or to put it another way, is locking it inside their walled-garden data silo. Your porn Tumblrs will no longer be a part of the open web. They will become invisible to the broad universe of everyone who is not (a) already a member of the Tumblr community and (b) willing to be logged while they surf their Tumblr porn so that their porn surfing habits can be more readily tracked and aggregated across all their different devices, IPs, VPNs, and fap sessions.

Although the email does not say so, I predict that explicit-content blogs will go back to flying that involuntary robots.txt that makes them invisible to the search engines, too. No more outside search-discovery for Tumblr porn!

We all knew that Tumblr’s run as the place to run free porn blogs had to end someday. It looks like July 5 is to be that day.

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