Itch.io, a platform that hosts and sells videogames (particularly popular in the indie dev industry) is the latest videogame distributor to fall to a recent sweep of puritan policies by credit card companies, designed to limit the sale of NSFW content. For those not in the know, credit card processors such as Visa and Mastercard have pressured Steam into removing NSFW content from its platform.
In the interest of fairness, there are some logical reasons for this—adult content is often used for scams and chargebacks, which costs banks money, and some adult websites have been caught displaying content featuring minors, such as PornHub: Motivating processors to drop the platforms entirely.
