News sites show porn on old articles due to expired domain of Vidme

The domain of video streaming service Vidme has ostensibly expired this month and was bought up by a porn site. As a result, several websites, including news media, showed the front page of a porn site this week where a Vidme video embed should be.

Vidme used to be a video streaming service that could be embedded by websites just like YouTube, for example. Those embeds show a snapshot of porn website 5 Star HD Porn since this week. Also the url of Vid.me redirects to the porn website.

According to Motherboard, websites such as The Washington Post, New York Magazine, and Huffington Post showed the porn website image instead of the correct Vidme embed this week. The porn website image shows users explicit snapshots of porn videos that are now being watched by other users. Websites now manually remove the Vidme embeds.

Vidme was started in 2014 and three years later the company stopped again. As a result, it will mainly be old articles where the video embeds have been replaced by an image from the porn website. According to Whois, the domain for vid.me was updated on July 7.

Source: Gizmodo