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The XHamster Wikipedia Page Is Suddenly Immensely Popular, and No One Knows Why (theoutline.com)

Posted by msmash on from the things-to-ponder dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: At the beginning of June I started to notice that XHamster, the third most popular adult website after Pornhub and XVideos, had one of the most viewed Wikipedia pages. On May 29, XHamster's Wikipedia page went from receiving around 100,000 views to 200,000. By June 1, it was getting more than 300,000 views a day for no apparent reason. There haven't been any viral stories about XHamster lately. There are no controversies about the page itself that would have prompted sustained attention or an edit war. [...] Pageviews on XHamster's Wikipedia page, however, has been bonkers throughout the month of June for no obvious reason. That's according to a pageview analysis tool from Wikimedia Labs, and confirmed by a Wikipedia spokesperson. I reached out to Wikipedia to see if it could shed some light on this puzzle. In an email, a spokesperson verified that the pageviews were accurate but that they didn't know what was causing the surge. Wikipedia's spokesperson pointed out that the edit activity, unlike its pageviews, has remained steady.

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  1. They've really started branding their videos by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    XHamster has started aggressively branding and marking the videos on their site. These videos are then uploaded elsewhere and suddenly, people see them. Given they started doing this about 2-3 months ago, it would coincide perfectly with this surge.

  2. Probably for C&C by wulfhere · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Something like this is my guess:

    https://arstechnica.com/securi...

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  3. India? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As a frequent visitor of xhamster I can say that in the last weeks a big amount of Indian porn was uploaded. See explanation #1 in source.

  4. Re:Botnet? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If it is on mobile I reckon it might be Chromes Awesomebar.

    People enter: xhamster which results in a google search. With safe search on wikipedia is the top entry.

  5. Re:Add-ons by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It could correspond to an increased use of DuckDuckGo as a search engine default. DuckDuckGo typically includes a Wikipedia page in a feature box, next toits top-line search item, if a domain is typed in the URL bar without a TLD designator.
    https://dl.dropboxusercontent....

    Worth investigating.

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  6. if you duckduckgo xhamster the FIRST LINK is the w by gl4ss · · Score: 3, Interesting

    an actual theory.

    some country recently blocked xhamster domain for xxx censorship reasons. the people used to going there for their mobile porn fix instead end up on the wikipedia page.

    if you duckduckgo xhamster the FIRST LINK is the wikipedia page.

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