Programming in the Adult Entertainment Industry Is Broken
The title of the article is misleading, it&#x27;s not programming that is the real issue, it&#x27;s billing (the progamming issues are just a part in the article).<p>Since the Credit Card companies &amp; banks create lots of problems as soon as sex is involved (see FetLife&#x27;s misadventures in HN previous articles for instance) in addition to the big chargebacks issue, and given that customers lie a lot (because they can), I think that the best solution for pornsites would be something similar to prepaid cards used for Google Play, consoles networks and the like.<p>You buy a card, this puts a limited amount on your &quot;PornPlayButDontSayItIsForThat&quot; account, it&#x27;s easy to control, anonymous, limits risks even if the account is compromised or the porn site dodgy (hidden automatic renevals &amp; the like) since at most you&#x27;d lose that limited amount, then you can buy porn without the issue of the SO (a big problem it seems) and without any banks (or whatever) knowing about your -still badly perceived- habits.<p>In fact, I&#x27;m surprised such a system (not specific to a porn site&#x2F;network) is not already widely available. Of course, it would not present itself as &quot;the Porn Prepaid Card&quot; because of the stigma... Note that some sites&#x2F;networks accept gift cards already (I&#x27;ve checked), but it&#x27;s not very practical (not fine grained, you must use the whole card) and they don&#x27;t accept ALL cards, what do you do when you&#x27;re living in France and they only accept American gift cards? You can also buy &quot;tokens&quot; in many sites (especially Webcams) but they still require a CC, so the problem is not solved. A more general &quot;ePurse&quot; system would be better.<p>This is much more realistic -IMO- than using Bitcoins or the like (too difficult to use and too volatile).<p>Of course, to REALLY solve the problem you&#x27;d &quot;only&quot; need people to stop seeing sex (and porn) as bad, dirty, taboo, etc. But this won&#x27;t happen anytime soon :-(((