No matter how you do it, managing passwords is a pain. First choice is always to use my own, but even that is a challenge sometimes. And if the billing service doesn't send a confirmation email, then they go off my list of acceptable services.
I agree that it shouldn't matter if your browser keeps track, but not all sites allow the browser to keep the PW.
Cloud service providers have no rights to any of the data you store. They have a fiduciary responsibility to keep it safe just like your bank, credit card companies and merchants have a fiduciary responsibility to keep your money and credit card information safe. Huge lawsuits have resulted from breach of that fiduciary responsibility when people hack into their systems or employees walk away with data. That said, many consumer-level cloud operations limit their liability for LOSS of data. So although they are liable for ensuring nobody else gets your data, they try not to be liable if they accidentally lose it. Only commercial B to B cloud operations are legally obligated to both secure and protect the data (to a very high degree thanks to SOX compliance laws). So if, as a consumer, you use cloud based storage and your stuff gets lost, tough. Thanks but no thanks.
If the question was primarily "do you use the cloud?" I don't. Cloud storage doesn't scale well for...um....our purposes, especially with the latest high res video/VR files getting up there into the 15-25 GB range.
If you are asking about our computer set-ups, well.... I just upgraded with a bunch of 6TB drives and now have a regular desktop, a dedicated VR machine and a server for backups. Desktop has 4 data-only drives (20 TB total, about half for the collection). VR machine has 2 data drives (12 TB), also about half for the collection, mostly VR added since November! The server has 24 TB, incrementally backs up nightly. I have a couple of 6TB drives to install in that one soon. VR files are 5-15 GB each. I also recently went back to many of my regular sites and started pulling images in the highest resolution available and video in 1080 or 4k. As a result, my collection has more than doubled in size in less than 6 months. (And it was pretty big before....)
Oh, and most of my data drives are installed in Istar tray-less removable cages (Newegg) so they can be removed or swapped out through the front of my computers without opening the case. These things are, cheap, awesome, make use of otherwise useless 5 1/4 inch slots, and make any drive "portable". they look pretty cool too!
To reply to Merc77, my mom caught my other brother in bed with another guy and she DID send him away! I often think I got away with so much because she was so relieved I was straight....and I got away with a LOT.
You forgot the option "Nothing". My brother had a huge stash and I developed a decent one when I was pretty young, mostly stolen from him. My mom knew where it was but chose not to "find" it. She knew where I kept my bong, too. She put it away for me more than once. (I got busted in my front yard at 16 and the cop brought me to the door and gave my mom a little lecture along with my stone pipe destroy. When the cop left, she gave me back the pipe and said "Don't let that happen again.") This was the '70s. It was a different time......
I've never paid and won't pay more than $39 a month for a site and that is for a specialty site that has some really unique material. When it comes to mainstream porn, competition is tough and my dollars go where I think I will find the material I want for the best value. There are thousands of porn sites out there and some are outstanding at just $19 or $29. If the price is too much, I move on.
My wife knows about it but doesn't know how big my collection is. She is also very tolerant. I share some videos with her to see if she wants to try things and occasionally we do. I haven't had the nerve to show her female POV virtual reality porn video yet because, on the one hand, I don't think she realizes how realistic VR porn is and on the other hand, I'm not sure she will like it as much as I do. Men are SO visually oriented....
Most of my stuff is 720 but I just built a new PC for gaming and VR with 16TB just for data, so lately I've been downloading more in 1080. The VR resolution for my HTC Vive is 3840x1920 so those files are HUGE!
Your plan has a 1024GB limit? Well that is interesting. I'm not aware of any limit here. Are you in a metro?
What I find is that if I use the Comcast speed checker, the speed given is usually faster than if I use Ookla. I attribute that to being internal to the Comcast system.
I've run several tests with a packet sniffer and can see that there is no overall bandwidth decrease, but download speeds decrease pretty significantly over the course of a few minutes for downloads only. This can be any downloads, not just porn sites and this is not site specific. I complained about it and they said it was my house wiring (CAT6 and a dedicated cable-modem link to the street...I don't think so). I forced them to come out. They ran tests and found nothing. Then when I complained again, they changed connections to the local demarcation point. Still didn't help. That's when I brought the sniffer home and tested. When I called them back, they said they don't do that. When the cable guy came back out, I showed him what I was seeing and he said...."It must just have something to do with where you live out here in the country." I live in a housing plan less than a mile from the Comcast relay station for the region. He didn't have a clue.
I called and kept asking for a supervisor. After an hour on the phone, the "supervisor" told me it was because I have an older cable modem and, of course, offered to sell me a new one. When I went to their site to see what other modems they had, I saw that they are selling the modem I currently own. Nice try. I own my cable modem and, just to be sure, went in to make sure that prioritization was turned off.
They are throttling. They might never admit it, but they are.
Although I do not have a cap, it is fairly clear that Comcast throttles my download speed after a few minutes of downloading. They probably have prioritization turned on for streaming.
I store pretty much everything by site and year but have created a few image "collections" folders of my top 5 or so favorite models, a few of whom have different names on different sites. I'll use the most common name. These days, most sites do a good enough job of naming files that I can just search my hard drives to find specific girls.
You know you've got too much stuff in your collection when you notice a hot girl, seemingly for the first time and then realize you've got other great sets of her that you never really noticed..... Not sure if that is more like Alzheimer's, or finding a lost $10 bill in your jeans pocket.
If you look at the reviews I've posted here, I'd say anything that I rated above about an 85 gets a visit every year or 2 years if I don't already have an annual subscription. PLUS a few specialty sites, like VR sites, that I like that are not rated as high. So that's about 15-20 sites a year. Wow. That is still cheaper than a night or two in any metro strip club.
I'll chime in on that and agree also. These sites are walking away from money if they don't offer a deep discount to returning customers for a longer term membership. For the most part, though, looking at it from their perspective, if you are interested enough to come back at full price, why should they give you a discount?
What I have found is that some sites offer a re-join discount through their biller. Sometimes the cancellation email you get will say "If you want to rejoin, you can do so at $" and they provide a link. There is no time restriction on a lot of these so it never hurts to try. You can also sometimes go to the biller's website and find your original subscription and see what the rate is if you rejoin from there.
Here's an interesting one. Going to my old membership through the biller is my first choice for rejoining. I have been able to do this a few times when a site's rate has gone up. That probably saved me $60 last year. Once I even opened a chat and asked about it and was given the lower rate. Only the best billers will consider this, though. A few are complete asses.
As any industry matures, there are ups, downs, advances and closures. New technology often acts as a propellant, taking an industry farther. For this industry, the smaller, poorly funded or one-man players have generally been absorbed or closed. Many of the established sites of the '90s, and some from the 00's were bought-out and run into the ground in the name of profit. Once dominant brands, like Playboy, Penthouse and Hustler are now practically on life support. This is how any industry works. New, innovative companies succeed and Luddites, poor products, poorly managed and underfunded companies fail.
What we are seeing now is a consolidation of the established porn channels into stable, high quality networks. There are still plenty of niche sites out there, but they will only survive until their owners give up, retire or sell out.
But this isn't necessarily a bad thing. Although the high-glam porn of the 80's and 90's is probably long gone, there are plenty of new things to experience and look forward to. With higher download speeds, video resolution continues to get better. (Heck, All porn is HD now. Comcast is still 90% 480P!) Quality improves. And new technologies like live web chatting and Virtual Reality provide opportunities that consumers have never seen before. (I'm not a big fan of web chats, but try a VR Web chat...It is amazing!) The fact that these technologies require capital and a new skill set bolsters the importance of new players on the production side.
The politics of porn is interesting, too. Some 50% of the connected PLANET watches it according to some statistics (Chive, maybe). Mainstream political groups don't even discuss it. Heck, Trump HAS to watch porn. He probably even has investments in it. With all the other crap he has on the table, making America button its blouse is SO not an issue. Besides, as an industry , porn is well organized and it spans borders.
So...better. Definitely better.
I see two threats to porn and they aren't what you think. The first is that in a connected world, models may become more concerned with the consequences of modeling and decide not to do it. Fortunately, there are many societies outside the US where nudity is not a big deal, so that is where we will continue to find models.
The other issue is an odd legal one. There are several predatory patent lawsuits going on in the porn industry where one sleazy company is sueing small porn producers over patent infringements. The patent is a very basic one that covers broadcasting video over the internet to groups of people. If the patent owner sued Youtube or Google, those companies have enough money to have the patent deemed unenforcible. But the patent owners go after small companies that don't have the resources to do that. It is total bullshit, but a few porn sites have paid-up and/or closed because of it.
So....for those WTF-ers out there. VR videos are 3d, and have a 180 or 360 view. You sit or stand there and look around and it feels a lot like you are in the room. So they are highly immersive. When you watch, you are essentially there with the model/models. Think of it as POV in steroids. Many sites really take advantage of the format and get pretty creative. I call participation the vids in which you actively have sex or the model/actress is doing something to you, like (nearly) sitting on your face. Masturbation or observation are the ones where you just watch. To me, the masturbation videos are OK, but they do not really do the format justice. On Sexbabes-VR, for example, Watching Paula Shy get herself off is nice, but screwing her in full VR is simply amazing.
If you have not tried this format, go buy a google cardboard for your phone and give it a try! There are plenty of free samples on Pornhub. I think VR eventually will do at least as much for porn as the VCR did!
I'm originally from south Florida but now I live in Pennsylvania, so I REALLY miss the boating and the beach. I crewed charter yachts as a teen and can tell you about deserted beaches in the Bahamas that nobody knows about (the REAL Bahamas, far from the pandering cruise ship ports...no offense intended, Pyrenees, I've been on some nice cruises, too). My wife and I still charter farther down in the Caribbean on vacations.
I think if I had a chance between one or two CORRECT camera angles and multiple camera angles, I would choose correct angle. In most videos, changing the camera location is common as positions change, etc. But a lot of amateur-style videos really don't shoot from the correct location. Thank god the trend of stylized shooting in an all-white back-lit room seems to be waning.
Lately, I've been into VR videos and most of those are, of course, shot from one or two POV angles (i.e. girl on top, cowboy, or girl in front, missionary or doggie). Some shoots manage to screw this up, but you really start to appreciate how difficult it is to shoot everything from the correct POV.
Personally, I think there is a limit to how much talking is good. I usually like the polite, come hither, asking and acceptance approach most. A girl tersely telling me exactly what to do or where to do it is not my style. But there are exceptions. Sasha Grey was a non-stop dirty-talk babbler. Sometimes, that were a turn-on, but only when you could understand her....sometimes, because she was just so incredibly hot.
I've been trying to convince FemJoy that their smaller image sizes (800,1200, with 5500 as the large size) are incredibly antiquated.....for about 4 years, I've been trying....
These days I like 2000-3000 pixel images thanks to faster graphics cards that can display them quickly. I will save the best images I find in the largest available resolution, but only the top .05 (one-half of a) percent of what is out there.
This is a tough one. Technically, it is all acting but I'm not watching a particular video to hear the guy throw slurs at the girl. That and endless exaggerated moaning are good reasons to just turn off the sound.
Well, I have historically not been a big keeper of videos but I recently started keeping both "full experience" POV and high resolution VR videos. As a result, the collection is growing rather quickly now. I've also started culling/archiving all SD video and any images that are less than about 1600x1200 since they get blurry on larger monitors. It is amazing how some older sets that once were the best are now just barely OK because of image resolution and improvements in image quality.
On the list it is probably Piper Perri but if I can broaden the definition a little, my favorite petite nude model of all time is Lorena Garcia (Lorena B on Met Art) from Spain. She doesn't do B/G porn but has done a few things on other sites (like In-The-Crack) that could finish off any straight man.
Are we talking about watching a trailer to decide if we should download the video? The sites I subscribe to allow you to stream the entire video so I usually make my own trailer by skipping through the actual video. Once in a while I'll watch something on PornHub (or someplace like it)that ends up being a trailer, but not very often. In other words, I don't watch trailers.
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