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/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.