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FYI - this isn't a method of monetization. This is a way of policing our community, by preventing people from searching for and finding porn on our site.

Secondly, actual users of our site have not complained, except for a few of our mods who say it makes it harder for them to find bad channels and flag them. So it's likely to last quite a while, since it's very successful in its goal.



Gotcha. If Techcrunch had included your guys' comment from the start it would have cleared everything up.




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