Japanese streaming service U-NEXT has announced that it has ‘temporarily suspended’ the use of Visa and Mastercard credit card payments for adult content, making it the latest company offering adult content to drop the Western credit cards. https://archive.ph/c8969
“Thank you for using U-NEXT.
This is an important notice for customers who have a Visa/Mastercard brand credit card registered as their payment method.
Due to various circumstances, U-NEXT has temporarily suspended the distribution of “Other♡” genre titles to customers who have registered Visa/Mastercard brand credit cards.
You can continue to enjoy titles in the genre by changing to a non-Visa/Mastercard branded credit card, such as the JCB cards listed below, or to another payment method.”
Japanese Internet commenters shared their disdain on the matter:
“I guess JCB is a must after all 🤔”
“I wonder if most of the adult industry will start relying on JCB.”
“What’s the point of foreign credit cards denying erotic content to this extent? Are they denying the reproduction of humanity, or are they saying we should eradicate erotic content and have children in real life?”
“Woke California’s fault 😑”
“The tyranny of Visan and Mastercard is not going to subside. It would be interesting if they continue to fall like this.”
“Is this why ero-anime disappeared from U-NEXT? I wonder if they’ll change what’s displayed based on your credit card type.”
“If JCB could lower its payment fees even further than it is now, it might not be a dream to take advantage of this tailwind and dominate the domestic market share.”
“I’ve been using JCB for a long time, but I hate the fact that people will start thinking that because of this, they’re using JCB for erotic purposes.”
“Japan is like this now, but I wonder what’s going on with payments for adult content overseas.”
