Against Google TOS / Content Policy.
https://www.google.com/+/policy/content.htmlDo you have a link for that? I can't find a ToS for Hangouts itself (the chat app/service), only one for Hangouts on Air (live-streaming chat from the Hangouts app with automatic archival to youtube) and only on that one there's the ban on adult content.
Do you have a link for that? I can't find a ToS for Hangouts itself (the chat app/service), only one for Hangouts on Air (live-streaming chat from the Hangouts app with automatic archival to youtube) and only on that one there's the ban on adult content.
Blogspot banned adult content in march 2015.Looks like @Guy is on-top of it. Just kind of something I know off the top of my head. I'm an SEO, [very horrible] SEM, YouTube publisher and monetizing some sites via AdSense (when affiliate marketing isn't a good fit) Kind of just know what is fair game or off-limits when it comes to Google.
Search and Blogspot (surprisingly enough) are the only two Google products where adult content is acceptable. Blogspot is highly regulated too. Google doesn't like people monetizing adult Blogspot blogs. Hell, Google kind of frowns on any kind of monetization outside of AdSense for that matter, which kind of makes sense, I guess.
They don't even allow adult sites for AdWords, although it seems that camming is a gray area. Either that or money talks louder than rules.
Hangouts is highly integrated into Google+ and G+ has a zero-tolerance policy with nudity and highly sexual content. Doesn't mean that people don't use it in that way. Can only fly under the radar for so long though.
[EDIT] Taking a second to read over the link @Guy shared, looks like Blogspot might not be accepting adult blogs anymore either. One of the reasons I always advise against relying on any kind of hosted blogging platform for adult web presences. Never know when a TOS change will make your site non-compliant and leave you looking for an alternative. Better to just pay the couple bucks per month for hosting and build it on something self-hosted.
And in 2012 Google took away the ability to turn off safe search in Google Images.No shit. And here I thought I was on top of that kind of shit.
That is the Google+ policies which only explicitly cover Hangouts on Air as I mentioned before. There's no clear policy for Hangouts (the 1:1 or 1:few) messaging product, which is a completely separate beast. Hangouts on Air as I said has those limitations due to the broadcast nature of the product, which the normal Hangouts doesn't have.
Partially correct: they announced it but after all the internal and external backlash, they rolled back that change a few days later, just check on - https://www.blogger.com/content.g?hl=en and http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/27/8119553/blogger-adult-content-ban-reversed .Blogspot banned adult content in march 2015.
Adult Content: We do allow adult content on Blogger, including images or videos that contain nudity or sexual activity. If your blog contains adult content, please mark it as 'adult' in your Blogger settings. We may also mark blogs with adult content where the owners have not. All blogs marked as 'adult' will be placed behind an 'adult content' warning interstitial. If your blog has a warning interstitial, please do not attempt to circumvent or disable the interstitial - it is for everyone’s protection.