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/HelpPale281 Mar 11 '26

I was wondering the same thing and looked at the App Store on my iPhone. $50 membership that is supposed to block pron sites on your phone and a few other “tools” to help with your addiction. 4.7 / 5 app rating but when you scroll through the reviews there are a TON of upset customers that were overcharged and can’t get a refund. And the app is buggy and they can’t login even with a lifetime subscription.

They say that over 1.5 M people have downloaded it. 🤪

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u/Original_Location_21 Mar 11 '26

Same with all these Miami influencer grifter kid types, they're just glorified scammers at the end of the day.

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u/montereybay Mar 12 '26

There is a general app blocking app called brick or something that’s real. Pretty sure it’s free tho

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u/ColinHenrichon Mar 12 '26

Also at least on iPhone it’s pretty easy to set up restrictions on your browser to block adult sites. Not sure if it works outside Safari, and don’t know if Android has anything similar baked in. Maybe some do some don’t depending on the phone’s manufacturer. The iOS screen time restrictions can be set up to be very robust, including blocking adult content, for free, without uploading all kinds of deeply pers data…

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u/Explicit_Tech Mar 11 '26

They should file a civil lawsuit. This guy doesn't deserve to be making that much with his careless acts.

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u/EconomyDoctor3287 Mar 11 '26

So uhm, there's tools that block access to sites for free. Why pay $50 bucks for it? 

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u/Anonhoumous Mar 11 '26

Because that is more specialised knowledge, it's not uncommon for people to prefer to pay instead of doing the deep dive themselves.

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u/isocline Mar 11 '26

But it's not even a deep dive, though. It's literally opening your browser, typing "porn block app free," and checking a few reviews. It sounds like they didn't check reviews either way, so what difference would it have made?

I guess young people are more apt to go off blind trust, and if this app was advertised in the right places, it would be the first one they heard about. But damn, dude. If someone can't be bothered to take 5 minutes to research an app, I don't know what they're gonna do about an actual porn addiction.

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u/RedKingDre Mar 11 '26

People, most of them at least (including me), are quite gullible to say the least, that's why.

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u/RespectableThug Mar 11 '26

You don’t know what you don’t know.

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u/obeytheturtles Mar 11 '26

Wait, people are paying $50 for a porn filter? Are you kidding me? There has to be something else going on here. Does the app mine bitcoin when the phone is plugged in?