• Yahoo has deleted the Erotica category on Tumblr, and disabled indexing for any adult Tumblrs. Tumbl
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[url]http://www.zdnet.com/adult-tumblr-blogs-now-removed-from-every-form-of-search-possible-7000018295/[/url] [QUOTE]When Yahoo bought Tumblr, it suggested that its adult and porn blogs would be left alone. Users found out this wasn't true when a new adult blog search policy went public on Thursday, capping Tumblr's quarantine on adult content, which now also includes excluding adult blogs from Google, Bing, Yahoo, and other search engines. tumblr porn crackdown The changes render an estimated 10% of Tumblr's userbase invisible and unfindable. Now, around 12 million Tumblr blogs marked "adult" have been removed from Tumblr's internal search; this follows the revelation two months ago that adult blogs were no longer indexed by Google, and the pre-sale removal of Tumblr's "Erotica" category from its category index. Tumblr's "Erotica" category had been launched in January 2010 with much sex-positive fanfare - it would appear that the days of Tumblr's tolerance are long gone. The change to its content restrictions came two months after press heard Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer say in May that Tumblrs which aren't "brand safe" - alluding to porn and adult blogs - would be left alone. Removal from search in every way possible is the closest thing Tumblr could do to deleting the blogs altogether, without actually removing 10% of its user base. Under Tumblr’s new rules, adult-rated blogs and their posts will no longer show up in tags, period. Tags are the way blogs are searched, and found, on Tumblr. The only way to find a post from a blog marked adult - or to find and discover adult blogs - is to receive the link directly, such as if another user reblogs a post, you are already following the blog, or you are sent a direct link. Blogs removed from both Tumblr and Google, Bing, Yahoo! Search To say that Tumblr users are angry would be the understatement of the year. The removal from internal search cuts off the adult blog user from the rest of the Tumblr community; since Tumblr has enabled robots.txt and inserted the rule (Disallow: /) that tells search engines not to search pages on all Tumblr adult blogs, the adult blog user is now cut off from Google search as well. In fact, that rule prohibits all standards-compliant search engines from indexing the blogs, a list that includes Google, Ask, AOL, Baidu, Bing and Yahoo. Longtime sex blogger "Bacchus" of Eros Blog - who is not a Tumblr user - discovered two months ago that Tumblr had quietly made it so all blogs marked as "adult" are now omitted from Google search, cut off from the rest of the Internet. Tumblr users were not made aware of the fact that adult blogs are not indexed by Google no matter what preference the user has expressed. He wrote (link NSFW), I’ve discovered that Tumblr uses robots.txt to bar all search engine access to blogs flagged as adult. If you’ve got an adult Tumblr, go look at your own settings. Do you see that first checkbox, the one that says “allow search engines to index your blog”? It’s nicely checked, it’s not greyed out, but if your blog is flagged “adult” it’s a lie. To answer the question “What happens to blogs that are flagged NSFW or Adult?” Tumblr offers this handy chart. The key piece of information is the white space indicated by my red superimposed arrow: [IMG]http://cdn-static.zdnet.com/i/r/story/70/00/018295/tumblr-settings-noindex-large-500x146.jpg?hash=BGMvZTD5Lw&upscale=1[/IMG] That’s right - where the “Blog indexed by Google” row intersects the “Adult Blogs” column, we find a ringing silence. This means if a user runs a blog marked "adult" wants to publicize a fundraiser, get the word out about life changes, post about sex ed with non-illustrated images, share a favorite brownie recipe, or share news about their experiences at a protest, these posts will not show up on either Tumblr's search engine or Google. Of course, Tumblr is able to flag a user's account as adult regardless of the user's consent. This news all comes on the same day that Tumblr's iOS update for Apple rolled out changes that remove search results for #gay, #lesbian and #bisexual (though leave #bi, #lgbt and #queer intact). This appears to be in conforming with Apple's anti-adult policy, though the unfairness of the characterization and effect on Tumblr's community is making its LGBT users see even more red. There were already ways to block porn on Tumblr if users don’t want to see it, such as Tumblr's Safe Search and Tumblr Savior. The complete elimination from all forms of search is absolutely overkill. Tumblr doesn't seem to care and this flies in the face of what Tumblr CEO David Karp told The Colbert Report Wednesday night. As reported in The Tumblr Porn Crackdown Is Here (The Atlantic), Karp told Stephen Colbert: [QUOTE]We've taken a pretty hard line on freedom of speech, supporting our users, creation, whatever that looks like, it's just not something we want to police.[/QUOTE] When you have somebody like Terry Richardson, or any number of talented photographers, posting tasteful photography, I don't want to have to go in there and draw the line between this photo and this behind the scenes photo of Lady Gaga and her, uh, her nip. Now Karp just looks like an idiot, and Yahoo looks like it's completely untrustworthy. So basically, Facebook is having a good week. Let's just hope that Yahoo's new Tumblr isn't as free and easy with slapping on "adult" content flags as Yahoo's Flickr. UPDATE: At approximately 9am PST Friday July 19, Tumblr's rep emailed me with a statement. Because it is the exact same statement (copy/pasted into its email to me) that Tumblr sent to The Daily Dot - seen in its article Tumblr Doesn't Care How You Feel About Its Porn Crusade - it answers questions specific to Daily Dot's article, and not this article. It does not make sense to reproduce Tumblr's statement here. [/QUOTE]
Where do i get my futa now from ? :(
Hear that? that's the sound of hundreds of hipster virgins slitting their wrists
[QUOTE=PassTheBong;41521838]Hear that? that's the sound of hundreds of hipster virgins slitting their wrists[/QUOTE] Couldn't care too much about the porn, really. But Yahoo has seen fit to flag anything even remotely NSFW, including anything with violence, drugs, and other such "horrible, adult" things. Just having particular words included will flag your tumblr and more or less erase it from existence. Do you know what that leaves? 14 year olds' blogs. And really, who cares about that shit? I just want my delicious OC, which they will not provide. I imagine in time there'll be a new startup which people will migrate to. It's a shame, Tumblr has a really nice UI. I imagine it won't be a long time before some startup appears and people migrate to that intead.
so this is how tumblr falls
i'm crying for real right now
And then it goes the way of GeoCities.
[QUOTE=Viper104;41521926]i'm crying for real right now[/QUOTE] I'm sure you are.
where will i ever get porn on the internet now
[QUOTE=myalt22;41521892]Couldn't care too much about the porn, really. But Yahoo has seen fit to flag anything even remotely NSFW, including anything with violence, drugs, and other such "horrible, adult" things. Just having particular words included will flag your tumblr and more or less erase it from existence. Do you know what that leaves? 14 year olds' blogs. And really, who cares about that shit? I just want my delicious OC, which they will not provide. I imagine in time there'll be a new startup which people will migrate to. It's a shame, Tumblr has a really nice UI. I imagine it won't be a long time before some startup appears and people migrate to that intead.[/QUOTE] thats what happens when ideas sell out i guess
So whats the new Tumblr ? Is yahoo gonna buy that too ?
[QUOTE=UnseeNova;41521826]Where do i get my futa now from ? :([/QUOTE] /d/
This is part 1 of Yahoo's plan to shut down Tumblr. Mark my words. They've done it in the past, and they'll continue to massacre people's data.
[QUOTE=Wii60;41521941]where will i ever get porn on the internet now[/QUOTE] but my 3 frame porn gifs
[QUOTE=Wii60;41521941]where will i ever get porn on the internet now[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.tblop.com/[/url] (NSFW duh)
Thank you Yahoo for saving these innocent people from bad thoughts
im so done
my right to stroke my dick is being oppressed
ok now delete homestuck and doctor who gifs while you're at it
yet another great web brand ensnared and sunk by yahoo
So they spend a fortune on buying tumblr with a promise that nothing will change only to change their mind and piss off a great deal of the userbase. Gee, couldn't be a greater time to start up a similar service and have the tumblr population move over there instead. I guess whoever made this decision won't have a job at Yahoo in the near future.
Stop selling good websites to shitty companies, god damn.
Based on the line explaining how the tag omission works, does that mean there are non-"standards-compliant" search engines that in fact ignore this?
So, basically, Yahoo now just exists to use the huge wealth it gained when it was still relevant to buy out websites and run them into the ground?
[QUOTE=Wiggles;41522045]So, basically, Yahoo now just exists to use the huge wealth it gained when it was still relevant to buy out websites and run them into the ground?[/QUOTE] They even said they wouldn't screw it up :v: [url]http://marissamayr.tumblr.com/post/50902274591/im-delighted-to-announce-that-weve-reached-an[/url]
There actually was something of a mini panic on tumblr when it was bought by yahoo because people predicted this kinda stuff. Then some PR spokesperson did his job well by saying something like "we respect tumblr in all its facettes" or something like that to successfully calm everyone down. Now a couple days ago people were confused why no mature content showed up in the tags anymore, which to my knowledge is how you find pretty much everything (unless you follow a person's reblogs). Well at least we now got confirmation at least. Since this is pretty much in line with Yahoo's reputation I doubt they'll revert the changes. I wonder if it'll lead to a bunch of tumblr clones popping up... or maybe none at all.
They explicitly promise not to do this a few months ago. And since my nsfw blog has only 1 follower it's pretty much doomed.
where the fuck is all the tumblring supposed to be done now
Yahoo won't change tumblr they said. Everybody overreacted when yahoo bought tumblr they said.
[QUOTE=Aurora93;41522008]ok now delete homestuck and doctor who gifs while you're at it[/QUOTE] You mean they should just delete the site?
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