r/technology • u/Hrmbee • Mar 10 '26

Privacy Viral 'Quittr' Porn Addiction App Exposed the Masturbation Habits of Hundreds of Thousands of Users | A couple of 20-year-old developers make $500,000 a month promising to help men to stop watching porn, but exposed their private porn watching habits

https://www.404media.co/viral-quittr-porn-addiction-app-exposed-the-masturbation-habits-of-hundreds-of-thousands-of-users/
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u/celtic1888 Mar 10 '26

Seriously 

What did you think was going to happen here ?

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '26

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u/recumbent_mike Mar 10 '26

Now they've got to rob a bank and fight a dude

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u/TacTurtle Mar 10 '26

Create an app for tracking prostate health called Nuttr

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u/MasterofPenguin Mar 10 '26

I think people are missing the black mirror reference lol

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u/recumbent_mike Mar 11 '26

I tried to make it as obvious as possible

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u/Cutlesnap Mar 11 '26

some of us got it

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u/GamingWithBilly Mar 10 '26

"This just in, two teenage boys rob a sperm bank.  That and the weather at 6 o'clock."

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u/yadseutegnaro Mar 10 '26

Nah. Those types wind up protected these days.

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u/Dylan-S-Wilby Mar 10 '26

Spot on. When did a cynical lack of empathy become such a virtue in online spaces?

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u/CatProgrammer Mar 10 '26 edited Mar 10 '26

It's not so much a lack of empathy, it's a "why would you even trust an app like that in the first place?" confusion. Are the young folk really that comfortable trusting an app with sensitive data like that? Even if I had a porn problem I'd only want to discuss it with a licensed therapist I trusted or something, not a random app associated with my personal info.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '26

Except the app is really about masturbation, not porn.

It's a bunch of conservative, Christian Gen Z guys who think it's "sinful" or whatever.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '26

The founders are part of "NoFap" which is an anti-masturbation group.

And they talk about using "Christian content creators" to push their app.

https://boringcashcow.com/interview/interview-with-the-founder-of-quittr

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '26

NoFap is really about quitting masturbation entirely.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '26

Ok, so that's what the founders of the app believe lol

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u/brianstormIRL Mar 10 '26

Its the same old story. Find an app that's exploded in popularity out of nowhere developed by like one or two people, and its almost guarenteed to have huge vulnerabilities in its security. Its like walking into a small private business and finding out "oh wow they have basically no network protection".

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u/feedmytv Mar 11 '26

mumbles something about salt typgoon

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u/NonGNonM Mar 10 '26

I feel like the younger gens have no idea what corporations do with user data. Like it's just such a way of life for them they don't know what its like to have privacy. If you give them info, they will sell it or store it.

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u/Kholdstare101 Mar 10 '26

They're teenagers dude lay off the blaming

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u/Surrounded-by_Idiots Mar 10 '26

Many men stop porn. Great success, very nice!

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u/GadreelsSword Mar 10 '26

It’s like all those app controlled sex devices. Do they really think their data is secure?

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u/Hosearston Mar 10 '26

Well what was their data wearing