Porthub & Xhamster

[watchr12 1,476]

To me, it looks like both Pornhub and xhamster no longer allow video downloading. In addition, Xhamster has had no additions to the pissing category of images for the last couple of days. Is something going on?

Pornhub has a very few videos that can be grabbed, but most now show that they cost, or you have to "subscribe" to see it, or that the poster doesn't allow downloading.

Xhamter, OTOH, has turned off downloading entirely. Their FAQs say that videos can't be downloaded at all.

For both sites, streaming video grabbers (like Video DownloadHelper for Firefox) don't see the stream, so can't download it.

Is anyone else seeing this? I hate to lose these interesting sources.

FWIW, I'm using Firefox 84, and deleted the cookies for both sites, but that didn't help.

Edited December 19, 2020 by watchr12

[Guest UnabashedUser]

had no trouble downloading a few clips from PH just now. Running FireFox with Video Download Helper version 82.0.3

[watchr12 1,476]

9 minutes ago, UnabashedUser said:

had no trouble downloading a few clips from PH just now. Running FireFox with Video Download Helper version 82.0.3

Hmmmm, I will check again. For many of the clips, the Download button's gone, and you have to subscribe to get access, which I don't want to do. Is there some advantage to subscribing to all these?

Thanks for the info.

[watchr12 1,476]

Does being a Premium (paid) member on either of these sites allow downloading of videos? (As I mentioned above, Xhamster says "no video downloading", but doesn't say if that doesn't apply to Premium.

Also, Xhamster hasn't had a new images post with the Pissing tag since December 17. Is this also reserved for Premium? Inquiring minds want to know...

Thanks!

[JMY 54]

Yes i lost a load on xhamster.Luckily XVideos has some of them still.

[watchr12 1,476]

Thanks, i'll check it out.

[Kingfisher28 272]

Pornhub got caught with it's pants down over what content had been uploaded to the site, the rumour mill said it was something to do with children porn which had been uploaded by someone that was not confirmed a verified profile. It was losing some support from a credit card company so I have read, it started to stop certain things being uploaded etc. Xhamaster got scared for some reason, will not tell it users what is happening only that they are checking everything that was put up was not breach of it policies, so many vids that were up have been put into waitting,deleted. A lot of pictures and stories also pulled as well. I know this as it happen to me. The other rumour is that Xhamster was hacked which could be why things have gone wrong as certain comments or anything with  a 9 in it is either getting banned or censored without a valid reason.

[watchr12 1,476]

The Xhamster pissing archives are shrinking, and there doesn't appear to be anything earlier than 2017 with the "pissing" tag (although it may be that posts before then didn't have tags, so aren't being picked up by their search engine). Searching for the term as such only brings up 20 pages, while using the tag is a little less than 200.

[watchr12 1,476]

Hmmmm, looks like Xhamster may be allowing the Pissing tag again, effective Jan. 3. There are only a few since Dec. 17, but it's a start.