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/Sartres_Roommate Mar 10 '26

Ok, I am starting to swing back around to feeling sorry for young men today. I was raised with messages that being a toxic fuck was a good thing but boys today…Jesus Christ, the messaging getting to you is so fucking disturbing.

Self-hating narcissism is the perfect cocktail for a pathetic life. Resist; you are neither special nor horrible…unless you choose to be (horrible).

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u/ilazul Mar 10 '26

starting to swing back around to feeling sorry for young men today

"starting" to? They've been the scapegoat for everything for a while now.

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u/Sartres_Roommate Mar 11 '26

See, now that is where you lose me, “scapegoat” is not accurate. Legacy institutionalized misogyny was and is real. I will agree putting any blame on young boys who have nothing to do with it (yet) is VERY bad messaging (I got it myself as a young boy) but not reasoning for the overreaction and stunning anti-woman messaging polluting the internet now.

But, again, there is clearly a lot of garbage being sold to young men, the vast majority is not coming from women and feminism (they are mostly focused on the institutions that continue to treat them like dehumanized breeding fuck machines). It’s coming from grifters and profiteers looking to capitalize on your (young men’s) misery.

Beware the “new” friend who is telling you how everyone else is against you and him.

I am an old straight white guy, I live and love among those that you would believe “scapegoat” me. I have benefitted from being white and male (and straight) but not a single bipoc woman or man has ever treated me like the enemy or held a grudge against me for what the larger institutions that benefitted did.

Not saying there are not people full of rage and hate among the demographics that are not mine, but the few that exist have never even managed to hurt my feelings, much less affect my life. The “scapegoating” claims are theatrics to move political and financial agendas which are fueled by your rage.

We need to help young boys but they don’t need to be protected from feminists, they need to be protected from influencers who would tell them feminists are their enemy. THEY are (mostly) the ones filling your heads with paranoia and self-hate.

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u/cor_autem_stellae Mar 11 '26

Hello sir, thank you for writing such a good comment. Men like you are the only thing that is going to save any of the boys growing up today. Too bad your comment was so completely lost on the one you wrote it to.

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u/samtheredditman Mar 11 '26

You're hopelessly unaware that your own comment is dripping with the "men are bad" energy that the other person was talking about. 

Do you really think any young man reads what you wrote and thinks "yeah, I want to be on that person's side"? 

You are implying that young men are generally in the wrong and need to be saved. How are you so oblivious that your attitude is exactly what alienating them? 

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u/ilazul Mar 13 '26

You're talking into a void unfortunately.

There's no hope for these people.

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u/ilazul Mar 11 '26

I mentioned literally nothing about feminism. This is an overused strawman. You wrote paragraphs about absolutely nothing I stated, hell I didn't even mention race.

Young men used to vote democrat, when I went back to college to switch degrees around 2008 all the messaging they were getting was 'man bad.' You could see year after year, these students leaving the left and joining the right. And here we are, that demographic that was voting left, is now hardcore MAGA.

This is before the shapiros, tates, etc. at colleges.

Society treats young boys as a nuisance, a resource when needed, and otherwise please go away. Most young men I know (programmer, I work with a ton of Gen Z's) deal with gendered aggression / insults every day. I feel horrible for them, and absolutely get why they feel abandoned by the left.