They're probably referring to the scope. Very few people were directly impacted by Ashley Madison (though there was at least one reported suicide due to the leaks), but lots of people watch porn and most of those people would not be too keen on their browsing history being leaked even if it's relatively tame, and especially if it's not.
The funny thing these days is that all porn is tailored to appear as far from "tame" as imaginable.
The average PornHub user's history will be full of weird incest shit at the very least, not because of any specific interest in the genre but because so much generic heterosexual porn is labeled as such. Looks really bad for you if it makes the newspaper.
So even "tame" leakage is 100x more embarrassing than it ought to be, and thus snooping on bf/husband's devices to humiliate them over their porn usage is normalized on relationship subreddits. Same goes for them plugging your email address into the password reset form to try to verify whether you have an account on any given site.
I'm not sure if the incest is being consciously pushed. In Japanese animated, drawn, and live action porn for example, a popular yet totally seperate ecosystem from western pornography, the same kind of incest stuff, hell even worse incest pornography between blood relatives and even involving children, has been extremely popular. It seems like most people who watch pornography move on to riskier genres, and incest pornography is a very easy step down from relatively normal genres.
I was about to call you on this apparently you’re right—the CEO of PornHub is indeed a Rabbi. I’d love to be a fly on the wall in strategic planning for PornHub’s moderation team. The addiction strategy is working of course but it’s probably not just about the money—I imagine every decision in that industry has a moral justification. I don’t buy that they’re just amoral, I think they just have a different set of morals and it would be interesting to see what those were.
You can still call someone out for blatant antisemitism when they're being blatantly antisemitic whether the thing they're saying is true or not. Do you think someone's being a Rabbi or being Jewish has anything to do with running a large adult content site?
I mean come on they literally created a throwaway account named "hey rabbi" to make that comment.
The history is extremely unlikely to be available to the id validator (beyond the domain at most). VPNs can't see the actual history either.