Popular porn sites now display unproven health warnings thanks to Texas law::Popular online adult film sites in Texas are posting health warnings about watching porn, despite the fact a law requiring them to do so was blocked in August.

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    “potentially biologically addictive” and “proven to harm human brain development.”

    These warnings should be required for all social media sites every time you open any webpage or app.

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      While they’re at it they could add “potential to cause spontaneous human combustion” or “potentially damaging to time-space continuum.” Potentially. I’m no porn fan, but my understanding is the evidence on the addictiveness claims is super weak.

      The causal arrow between porn and the brain development thing could easily go either way. It’s hard to tell.

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          It must, that label is on everything, so it effectively means nothing. This exchange happened between my wife and I a couple months ago

          ‘oh honey look…this pink Himalayan salt, which expires in…2 weeks?!? is known to the state of cancer to cause California. Ah, science. What a time to be alive’

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            The amount of lead in Himalayan salt (it’s mined from mountains in Pakistan) can be above allowed limits, and especially can cause developmental issues in children. Europe has same or possibly more stringent lead expectations.

            I guess the two takes could be “ugh California has warnings on everything so it’s meaningless” or “wow, FDA really doesn’t give a fuck and allows all this stuff to go unchecked”

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              They’re usually vinyl (PVC), and it probably does. At least it would if you ingest or burn it. Burning it could release chlorine, too, so the cancer might be the least of your worries.

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        I mean, there’s such a thing as being addicted to porn. I fall to see how you get such an addiction without looking at it

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          Yes, but there’s such a thing as being addicted to sex, too, and pretty much any pleasurable activity. It’s generally pretty rare.

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      Please don’t the 17 attempts for me to surrender my cookies are already exhausting my willingness to use the web.

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        • Do you accept cookies?
        • Bonus GDPR consent because we couldn’t be bothered rolling cookie consent into it!
        • Subscribe to our newsletter!
        • Enable notifications!
        • Log in to Google!

        These popups are worse than the actual pop-up ads - at least those were in separate windows or tabs and so could be closed easily with keyboard shortcuts.

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          I often decline their cookie bull, they’ll just keep asking with every new page i load from that website. Preferably with a pop-up that covers 2/3rd of the screen.

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            I think but haven’t done any proper investigations, that some sites only store your cookie response if you accept a certain kind of cookies. Basically every site now divides cookies up into functional, optimisation and marketing, and I have at least observed:

            1. go to website, receive prompt
            2. decline all non-required cookies
            3. go to next page within website, receive prompt again
            4. decline all but functional cookies (or similar wording
            5. go to next page, no prompt.
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            If you can figure out which script is responsible for the pop-up, it’s usually possible to block it by, for instance, feeding its URL to your ad blocker. Just takes a bit of patience.

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