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How do I configure NSFW to not appear on Itch.io pages?

A topic by LincolnSalles created Nov 08, 2023 Views: 58,955 Replies: 4
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Itch.io is being flooded with pornography, it is offensive to children. There are heavy, disgusting and appealing things, it's cheap pornography disguised as something artistic, it's very appealing. Anyway, this shouldn't be shown to children, which is a large audience here. I shouldn't have to try hard not to see this, it should be standard that it doesn't appear. It seems like this rubbish has only increased, I'm wondering what the future will be when anyone online anywhere will have pornography right in front of every child's face. It's the end.

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Generally you should only see content marked as NSFW if you:

  1. directly seek it out. For example, you type in the name of an NSFW category
  2. enable NSFW browsing from your account settings (it is disabled by default, but will activate if you upload an NSFW piece of content on your account). You can double check your setting here: https://itch.io/user/settings

We have strict requirements on classification and filtering, so if something is showing up in place where it shouldn’t be then it should be reported to us.

Can you please share where you came across the content you’re concerned about?

Thank you, my profile was actually marked to allow this content. I'm a little more relieved that by default this box is unchecked. Thanks.

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Of the 840k games on itch only 0.2% are nsfw. Itch is not flooded with nsfw games, it is flooded with games.

And same with google, you need to change options to see the nsfw stuff on itch. As you obviously did. The relevant options is named "(x) Show content marked as adult in search & browse" on the front page of your settings/profile.

You actually should be flooded with horror games on browse. Those are not appropriate for children either, so I shall claim, that children are in fact not the target audience of itch.

That being said, there are regular attempts of bad agents to upload malware and stolen games. Those are typically nsfw. If you see nsfw despite having it turned off and not seeking it out specifically,  it might be one of those.

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I DID NOT EVEN UPLOAD NSFW ON THIS SITE