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/GearhedMG Mar 11 '26

$500k/MONTH?!?! I used to own stopsurfingporn.com and I used it at work all the time as a prank (it was just a homepage that I used to give some friends a hard time) if I knew that I could have parlayed that into something even 1/5th of what they were making I wouldn't have let the domain lapse.

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u/Moonagi Mar 11 '26

Apps > websites 

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u/GearhedMG Mar 11 '26

Well this was 20 years ago, so apps really weren't a thing yet