A stash of porn videos have been hidden on YouTube using Irish words to try and dodge the video site's strict policies. Four channels with around 20 feature-length videos of hardcore pornography were discovered by a journalist for Irish-language news site Tuairisc. We remove videos and channels that violate our policies when flagged for our attention," said the Google-owned video site. By Olivia Solon. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice. Yes, I was looking for it Yes, but I was looking for something innocent No, it's easier to find porn elsewhere No, but how can I find it? Follow MirrorTech. News all Most Read Most Recent.

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By Ellie Zolfagharifard For Dailymail. But a group of YouTube users has been using it as a secret phrase to hide pornography on the site and circumvent a ban on explicit material. The films, disguised using various Irish language titles, were uploaded by four different accounts which were all registered in October. YouTube has since removed the videos. Watching porn on laptops replaced the magazine, and now it seems mobiles are set to replace viewing adult sites on desktops.
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Pornographic films were left on YouTube for months because they were "hidden" under Irish language titles. My flatmate is a media student in Galway who was looking up [the Irish word for film] on YouTube for a project. According to the Irish Independent , after being made aware of the videos' existence, YouTube was "quick to take action" and removed all the content and suspended the accounts that uploaded them. A search for "scannain" still seems to draw results for adult content, although the videos we found had English, Spanish and French titles and just had "scannain" as one of the tags. These videos, although they had suggestive titles and thumbnails, actually turned out to be retro B-movies. More: What the ten most popular videos on YouTube teach us about humanity. Anyone can post in open comments.
Pirates are using the site's video hosting services to host adult videos. And there appear to be very little that Google, which owns YouTube, can do about it. YouTube has rules banning both sexual content and pirated videos, meaning that none of the videos should be available on the site. Ordinarily, YouTube has a series of controls meant to banish such content.