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NSFW Content is shown by default in guest mode

A topic by outish created Apr 15, 2022 Views: 1,647 Replies: 7
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Steps to reproduce:

  1. Go into the browse tags page while not logged-in
  2. Scroll down and eventually you will see adult/NSFW tags with thumbnails of games associated with these tags shown.

Note: Prior to itch showing these tags and games it doesn’t ask for the user’s age nor does it ask if they’re fine with NSFW content, it shows them out of nowhere.

How it should work: Adult/NSFW tags shouldn’t be shown to the user unless they explicitly accept to them.

Moderator

Make sure those games are in fact marked NSFW, and if not, please report them so a staff member can check. A few examples would have been useful.

Admin

NSFW content is hidden by default unless you explicitly go to an NSFW tag page.

If something is showing up then it’s likely because it hasn’t been classified correctly by the author, and we ask that you report the page so we can take a closer look.

Thanks

If you go to https://itch.io/tags and scroll you will start seeing NSFW tags.

Moderator(+2)

Yes, you can see the tags, and the games in them, but the game pages themselves will show an age check if you click through. Arguably the mouse-hover popups leak information, but that's another story.

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But the thumbnails of games tagged as NSFW is shown By-default from the tags page. A better solution would be to blur them, or better yet don’t show NSFW tags unless the user opts-in to show NSFW content

I think there are requirements to not show any adult content in thumbnails though, so why would that matter? I strongly dislike opt-in because it limits visibility to the adult audience as well, many of which do not log in when incognito, etc. Thumbnails are the advertisement, blurring them is making a judgment call on what content should be advertised. The age gate when you click should be plenty.

Admin(+3)

Thanks for the report. This issue should be fixed now. NSFW related content and tags will now only be eligible to appear on tags that are already marked as NSFW. Additionally, tags that are explicitly marked as NSFW will not show up by default unless the viewer has opted into them.