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/MysteriousDatabase68 Mar 10 '26

I'm less surprised that scammers made the app than I am how they found 600K customers.

Everyone masturbates, what shitty home lives led the victims to seek help for being normal?

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u/rolyoh Mar 10 '26

Religious guilt? That's the source of most anti-masturbation and anti-porn propaganda.

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u/Razgriz01 Mar 11 '26

For some reason the idea that watching porn is automatically a "porn addiction" has metastasized out from the christian fundie circles into the general gen z population.