Sadpanda is the pornhub of hentai and yet it has no ads, no tracking and no malware. What's their endgame...

Sadpanda is the pornhub of hentai and yet it has no ads, no tracking and no malware. What's their endgame? Why do people open these high traffic websites and then run them at a loss?

look at their parentsite

Loli is love loli is life. That's all you need to know really.

>run them at a loss
Don't you have to do some bullshit things like post on their forums, play retarded flash games and be a member for some time?

And as far as I know, their main website contains ads.

Does sadpanda/e-hentai really get that much traffic?

Regular porn gets HUGE traffic, but I can't imagine hentai (not even animated hentai, usually, but just doujins) gets even 5% of a single big tubesite's traffic.

>Why do people open these high traffic websites and then run them at a loss?

lol capitalists make me sick.

No you don't. You register for an account with e-hentai, which is free, and install the chrome/firefox/whatever plugin or edit your cookie with your login and that's it.
I've been using exhentai for 6 years and never once seen an ad or touched flash or anything. Shit just works, no questions asked, everyone mind your own business kinda deal.

I didn't even know about the cookie thing.

I literally just log into e-hentai, open up exhentai in a new tab, and I'm in.

They actually have a volunteer CDN with hentai@home.

He pays $40k or something a year in server costs.

They supplement their hosting needs with volunteers running their HENTAI@HOME client, which serves up images from other users rather than their own servers. Volunteers are then rewarded with imaginary currency for site and game perks.

All currency is imaginary currency

Well yeah, you don't have to fuck with the cookie, but I just do so that my session never expires.

Somebody sinking tens of thousands of dollars a year to run a website with no visible benefit to themselves doesn't make you suspicious?

I like this concept because it allows people to contribute in other ways than simple "gib mony pl0x".

Then there's no reason not to pay your imaginary taxes.

The main sites has ads and the owner has already declared in public that he makes around 100k a year with around 40k of hosting costs.
Stop being paranoid you fucking pedo.

They also accept donations and have an "adopt a server" program that lets people pay for part of a server's operating cost in return for this same currency.

Overall it's a pretty effective low cost system this guy has made.

yeah just wish it were more secure

I agree having the files shared over HTTP isn't the hottest thing ever but hey at least it works well and looks sustainable.

If they could figure out a way to get the ads past the panda they'd be there. The have them on the regular site.

You just don't go to exhentai before you log in, if you go there before and get a sad panda, you have to delete the exhentai cookie

Nope, it's not related to having ads

fuck, there are people who can't get past the sad panda without help? they don't deserve browsing it then