In December 2020, following a New York Times article on such content, payment processors Mastercard and Visa cut their services to Pornhub. The company has been criticized for slow or inadequate responses to some of these incidents, including the hosting of the high-profile channel GirlsDoPorn, which was closed in 2019 following a lawsuit and charges of sex trafficking.
Incidents have been reported of Pornhub hosting non-consensual pornography. It offers virtual reality porn, amongst other products, and hosts the Pornhub Awards annually. The site is available internationally but has been blocked by some individual countries such as India, mainland China, the Philippines, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. In March 2010, the company was bought by MindGeek (known then as Manwin), which owns numerous other pornographic websites. Pornhub also has an office and servers in Limassol, Cyprus.
Pornhub was launched in Montreal, Canada, in 2007. As of June 2020, Pornhub is the 10th most trafficked website in the world and the third most-trafficked adult website after XVideos and XNXX. It is one of several pornographic video-streaming websites owned by Mindgeek. Pornhub is a Canadian-owned internet pornography website.
