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Vendor-described avoidance category includes infrastructure with legitimate uses; no judicial illegality of every service inferred.
DoubleVerify — product and membership brand → P2P Sharing and Streaming — DV category
2025-02-13 – 2025-02-13
13February2025 announcement says both categories will be enabled by default. P2P has acknowledged lawful uses; announced enablement is distinct from the later April reported state.
DoubleVerify — product and membership brand → P2P Sharing and Streaming — DV category
2025-04-24 – 2025-04-24
24April2025 release states both categories are enabled by default. This is a company-reported operational state, not independently tested customer configuration.
Advertising classification adds a question about scale: is the object a page, channel or whole domain? February 2025 Senate letters questioned financing a website even where advertisements avoided prohibited material. DoubleVerify subsequently announced default Highly Illicit and P2P Sharing and Streaming categories and later reported implementation. The chronology does not establish that the letters uniquely caused the change. NCMEC notifications, DV's assessment and its later IWF relationship are different inputs. Announced defaults do not constitute our observation of customer settings, and general customer-choice language does not prove an override in every configuration. A14
Read the research & sources ↗DoubleVerify: customer choice, vendor defaults and review ↗
DV category authority: a later adoption claim and an upstream correction boundary ↗
DoubleVerify — product and membership brand → announced future default enablement → P2P Sharing and Streaming — DV category
2025-02-13 – 2025-02-13
Reported by the cited source
13February2025 announcement says both categories will be enabled by default. P2P has acknowledged lawful uses; announced enablement is distinct from the later April reported state.
DoubleVerify — product and membership brand → reported enabled default → P2P Sharing and Streaming — DV category
2025-04-24 – 2025-04-24
Reported by the cited source
24April2025 release states both categories are enabled by default. This is a company-reported operational state, not independently tested customer configuration.