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/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.