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Roku is removing a loophole used by porn providers to target users on the streaming platform despite Roku's stance on banning the graphic content.The ban, slated to happen on March 1, 2022, will block the world's largest porn site, Pornhub, and similar services from offering their channels on the platform.  Porn services appear as private channels, which are also used by developers for testing purposes, allowing them to bypass approval needed to display channels in the Roku store to users.However, Roku last month that it is removing the private channels and replacing them with beta channels that lets developers test with up to 20 users before publishing.   This is set to happen on March 1, 2022 and will block the world's largest porn site, Pornhub, and similar services from offering their channels on the platformThe company held its annual developer conference last month where it announced new processes on how it will handle channels on its Channel Store going forward, but the under   
  
  
  
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Roku has come under fire in the past for its private channels, due to illegal content being easily accessed. In  it was banning pornography starting October 1 'to comply with the requests of our banking partners and payout providers,' an OnlyFans spokesperson confirmed to DailyMail.com in an email. Chief executive Tim Stokely claimed the change was prompted by 'unfair' banks who were concerned about 'reputational risk.' He named three banks - Metro Bank, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of New York Mellon. , the company dropped its plans.Some Twitter users speculated that the whole series of events was a huge publicity stunt, but OnlyFans insisted that it had 'suspended' the change having 'secured assurances necessary to support our diverse creator community.'  
  
  
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