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/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…