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XVidoes is a website for viewing and sharing pornographic material. It was founded in Paris in 2007, the website is now registered to the Czech company WGCZ Holding.[1][2] As of October 2023[update], it is the most visited pornographic website and the 9th most visited website in the world.[3] The website is free to access, and uses advertising as a source of income. The website is an aggregator, it works similar to Youtube for videos.[4][5] Video clips from professional videos are mixed with amateur and other types of content.[4][5] By 2012, XVideos was the largest porn website in the world, with over 100 billion page views per month.[6]
Fabian Thylmann, the owner of MindGeek, attempted to purchase XVideos in 2012 in order to create a monopoly of pornographic tube sites. The French owner of XVideos turned down a reported offer of more than US$120 million by saying, "Sorry, I have to go and play Diablo II."[5]
In 2014, XVideos controversially attempted to force content providers to either pledge to renounce the right to delete videos from their accounts or to shut down their accounts immediately.[7][8][9]
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- ↑ "'BangBros' Owner Buys Penthouse Biz For $11.2 Million". The Blast. 5 June 2018. Archived from the original on 3 July 2018. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
- ↑ "xvideos.com Traffic Statistics". SimilarWeb. April 2020. Archived from the original on 2021-12-22. Retrieved 2021-08-08.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Tsika, Noah (October 3, 2016). Pink 2.0: Encoding Queer on the Internet. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. pp. 61–62. ISBN 978-0253023230. Archived from the original on January 24, 2023. Retrieved November 22, 2020.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "Naked capitalism". The Economist. September 26, 2015. Archived from the original on February 12, 2018. Retrieved August 31, 2017.
- ↑ Yagielowicz, Stephen (April 4, 2012). "Report: The Internet Really Is for Porn". XBIZ. Archived from the original on June 12, 2018. Retrieved August 31, 2017.
- ↑ "XVideos.com Tube Site Accused of Strong-Arming Uploaders". AVN. August 13, 2014. Archived from the original on June 12, 2018. Retrieved August 31, 2017.
- ↑ "Online porn websites promote 'sexually violent' videos". BBC News. 5 April 2021. Archived from the original on 8 April 2022. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
- ↑ Kristof, Nicholas (16 April 2021). "Why Do We Let Corporations Profit From Rape Videos?". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2021-04-16.