So would you call this WAPORN?

[Thomas Veil]

I know I shouldn’t find this funny, but I can’t help myself.

Here’s (yet another) argument against using third-party embeds on your respectable website: Porn company 5 Star HD Porn bought the expired domain for video hosting site Vidme, which went out of business in 2017.

This means that any websites with Vidme embeds now have porn on them. According to Motherboard, which reported the story first, the list of websites with unexpected porn embeds includes New York Magazine, the Washington Post, HuffPost, and others. And yes, we discovered one such embed on The Verge and have since disabled it.

Even The Washington Post?? Cue the Deep Throat jokes.

Old Vidme embeds turn into a hub of porn after domain purchase

It appears many sites are affected

www.theverge.com