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essays on the industry, the discovery problem, and what we're building.
why adult web search ranks by ad inventory not intent
an honest look at how tube listing order is shaped by ad inventory and session length instead of what you actually searched for, and how to route around it.
2026-10-19
mobile is 87% of adult traffic and tubes still aren't built for it
most adult traffic is on phones, yet tube layouts, ad placement and navigation still behave like desktop sites that got squeezed down.
2026-10-12
why a tube's deep links break the moment you share them
a look at which tubes give you a link that lands on the scene and which ones bounce you through redirects, age walls and ad pages first.
2026-10-05
what dedup actually costs when a scene lives on six tubes
a look at why matching the same clip across xvideos, redtube, xhamster and the rest is harder than it sounds and what breaks when you get it wrong
2026-09-28
tube search bars route you instead of finding things
a look at how search boxes on the major tubes are tuned for session length and ad inventory, and what actually gets you a relevant result.
2026-09-21
why category browsing on tubes always drifts to the same ten scenes
tube recommendation and category sort algorithms optimize for session length, not for what you actually clicked into the category to find, so browsing collapses into the same handful of scenes no matter what you searched.
2026-09-14
the paywall shows up after you already clicked
a look at how tubes bait you in with a free thumbnail and preview then wall off the actual scene behind a premium prompt, and why that pattern survives.
2026-08-31
pornhub vs xhamster and who actually respects your time
a head to head on ad density, search quality, and deep-link friendliness between the biggest aylo tube and the biggest independent one.
2026-08-17
what actually changed about tube design in five years
a breakdown of what got genuinely better and worse in tube site ux since 2021, from mobile-first layouts to how aggressive the ad walls became.
2026-08-10
xvideos vs spankbang and who treats you better
a head to head comparison of xvideos and spankbang on ad density, redirect chains, and how fast you can actually find something to watch.
2026-08-03
directories and tubes are not the same thing
most people call every adult site a tube even though a directory does something structurally different, and that confusion is why discovery still sucks.
2026-08-03
the eu's age verification laws don't agree on anything
the uk, france, germany, italy and spain all passed different age verification rules for adult sites and tubes are handling compliance in wildly inconsistent ways.
2026-07-27
onlyfans didn't kill the tube, it hollowed it out
the traffic and revenue tubes lost to creator platforms didn't disappear, it just stopped being discoverable through category browsing, and the carousel bolt-ons tubes built in response don't fix that.
2026-07-26
aylo owns most of the tubes and it shows
aylo's cross-ownership of pornhub, redtube, youporn, brazzers and reality kings means what looks like six different search results is really one company recommending itself.
2026-07-20
why tube tag pages are broken and who they're actually for
tag taxonomies on the big tubes are built to catch seo long-tail traffic, not to help you find what you actually want, and the difference shows up the moment you click one.
2026-07-16
why the same scene is on six tubes at once
how content deduplication works across the major tubes, why it matters for discovery, and what it means when you find the same video on xvideos, xhamster, and eporner simultaneously.
2026-05-24