MicroWaveViral ‘Quittr’ porn addiction app exposed the masturbation habits of hundreds of thousands of users
KelvarCherry [They/Them]its creators, Alex Slater and Connor McLaren, did not fix its security issues despite multiple requests and an offer from an independent researcher to help them fix the problem.
FUN! How much ya wanna bet this was vibe-coded?
hammertimeOnce you learn how to CODE, you’ll realize how dumb it is to blame everything on AI.
Jo MiranOne of my biggest gripes with coding AI like Claude is how desperately polite and flattering they are. I wish there was a way to feed it hand written code to analyze for bugs and security flaws, then have the AI relentlessly roast your shitty code.
"LMFAO, you dumb b!tch! Are you trying to get hacked and sued, by <insert dumb shit here> or are you just that stupid? Here are a few steps you can take to fix your shit code and have it adhere to standard coding practices. "
Is that the one speaker of the house used with his son?
ArkhiveMen will do literally anything other than go to fucking therapy. Jesus. Guys. You’re allowed to watch porn, let’s just direct the fear of people finding out into finding ethical porn you don’t need to feel guilt for. Or better yet, pay for your porn and support creators directly.
Also find some hobbies that get you out of the goon cave. Take up fucking birding and go find some different boobies.
zqwzzleNot just tits, bushtits too! And boobies of course. Can’t forget the mighty cock.
Hmm. Might need a bird addiction app.
UnderpantsWeevilYou’re allowed to watch porn, let’s just direct the fear of people finding out into finding ethical porn you don’t need to feel guilt for.
I mean, YMMV on that ethical porn business. I’ve found that to be more of a marketing gimmick than anything I can sleep soundly on.
Might just settle on not feeling guilty for beating off.
super_user_doYup that is mostly marketing bullshit. As long as the creator is having fun it’s ethical to me, still keeping in mind that selling your body is not good but still legitimate because of the system we live in
You’re not wrong, but like gambling, porn addiction exists, but that goes to your first point about therapy. I don’t understand why anyone would load this type of information into an app. I assume it’s ignorance to technology, which is sad, but I can’t help but think how anyone would think it’s a good idea.
Porn / sex “addiction” does not exist. Some nice folks who were super invested in proving it gave up a while back.
Most people have perfectly average porn / sex use, and are shamed by a partner or cultural messages.
A small percentage of people deal with “OCSB”, out of control sexual behavior.
Just because many people don’t seem to notice their addiction that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. The methodology used to disprove the existence of porn addiction is just to completely and utterly ignore all the people who experience it and than claiming it doesn’t exist
I haven’t read any such study myself, but it sounds like a BS study. Anything that controls a person’s life can be considered an addiction. There are certainly people where porn has controlled their lives. One person who’s been very vocal and brutally candid about how it was ruining his life is The Primeagen, a coder on YT. My best friend’s father died in huge debts because he was buying copious amounts of porn outside of his means, and phone sex lines. That’s addiction.
We are talking about sexual addiction and bro linked studies about average and moderate use of adult content lmao
Reading through this thread has been a bizarre experience - I genuinely couldn’t have imagined the amount of pushback you get here just for speaking up for people struggling with this. It seems exactly the kind of thing I’d have expected deep compassion for, given the userbase here.
Still, my conclusion is that much of it boils down to the term “addiction” - since it’s a medical term, people seem to think that once you medicalize it, you’re paving the way to ban it.
Personally I don’t care what term we use. If people prefer “compulsive porn use,” then fine. For me the point has always been the lived experience of what people mean when they talk about living with a porn addiction - even if it officially doesn’t count as one. In my opinion it does, because it checks virtually all the boxes of the standard definition: you need more of it, you seek out more extreme stuff, you get cravings when you stop, and you keep going long after the negatives have started to outweigh the positives. If that’s not addiction, then I don’t know what is.
Its crazy that everyone is comfortable with the idea of social media being able to cause an addiction, but when the said social media is about sexually explicit content, it automatically becomes ultra healthy and extremely good with no limits and its use always legitimate and to encourage. Porn sites are, at their core, still social media designed with the very intention to keep people into the loop of consumption. Porn sites don’t profit from people who use it every once in a while but to users who watch it hours and hours of it on a daily basis
Then we can argue to the fact that it’s is technically an addiction or not, but if you got all the symptoms of an addiction, if it impacts your life and you still do that even I it means postponing important things of your life, craving it inappropriate moments and constantly feeling the pulsion to do that no matter what even in public, THAT IS AN ADDICTION! I have seen firsthand people who have COMPLETELY changed just by removing porn, including myself. Again, not removing sex or masturbation, but just removing EXCLUSIVELY porn (and maybe increasing how much they have real sex in real life). It can definitely change your life to the better. Moreover, the guy who linked the studies is acting like porn isn’t a multi-billion dollars industry managed by huge corporations with basically unlimited power
Therapy is incredibly expensive and most people can’t afford it. You don’t understand how privileged you are if you can afford it
lechekaflanWhat a grift.
People in the comments blaming Christianity for allegedly “inventing” porn addiction. Guys, porn addiction is absolutely real and porn is to be considered a fully fledged drug. It destroys you from the inside. You don’t have to be a Christian to understand that porn is a fucking drug, the only reason why you don’t seem to understand this is because most of you all are so extremely and overwhelmingly addicted and in denial that likely haven’t even tried quitting once. If you can’t stop using it, whatever your opinion is on the subject, you are addicted.
I’m not saying I’ve never used it or that I don’t use it as well, but man we gotta be conscious about what we are doing. Back between 2023 and 2024 I was 100% porn free and just removing that basically fixed my life. Maybe you don’t have “ADHD” but just completely destroyed your dopamine receptors
It was. Modern extremist christians are convincing secular folks, that their ancient age beliefs are “common sense morality”. Some people are now even saying if it wasn’t for christianity’s “love thy neighbor”, we wouldn’t have freedom of religion, or that before the ten commandments people just murdered each other for no good reason.
Their choice of tactic to get back to cultural dominance is to secular wash their beliefs. “Porn addiction” started out from fundamentalist christian circles, and the only reason why science ever bothered with it (which by the way found it way less addictive than how fundamentalists tried to sell it) is due to it being pushed so hard by activists, who provided slightly secularized therapies through secular washed proxies. And whatever actual addiction it might have caused, is now buried under decades of therapies, that told you christianity is just “common sense” and how it’s the only non-falsifiable religion because some mountain has an indent on its peak.
And secular washing anti-porn sentiments is just the tip of the iceberg. The end goal of the push for transphobia is to push biblical patriarchy as “common sense”, the supposed problem being “temporary gender confusion”, and the panacea for it being the following of strict gender roles even if they won’t make you happy.
It has nothing to do with religion bro, it all comes down to how much stimulating is that kind of content. It is harmful for the same reason as doomscrolling on social Media is, just at 200x the disruptive power because it also involves repetitive movements and often masturbation itself, which can also be addictive in itself
Y’all should stop gooning and face reality. You are assuming that religion is lived in the same way as it is lived in America, but it IS NOT. We are not all puritan Christian fundamentalists. Not everyone is American, deal with it. Nobody in the pornfree and nofap community Is even considering Christianity
The whole goal of pro-porn propaganda is to make generations of men incapable of taking action and women who think that prostitution for the male glaze is a form of liberation. Where the heck did you take the transphobia thing and gender roles
I was gonna agree with you in the doomscrolling segment, then I read more, then I found this:
The whole goal of pro-porn propaganda is to make generations of men incapable of taking action and women who think that prostitution for the male glaze is a form of liberation.
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Now tell me Chinese semen retention myths!🤣🤣🤣
Sex is considered fine even in the nofap community. I repeat, removing porn AND increasing real sex is good. Semen retention is not bad but it is psychologically unsustainable
Fucking dorks lmao
Ftr, women do this too with their menstrual cycles. Stop using apps to report your most intimate info and then being surprisepikachu.jpg when they harvest your data lol
People are so fucking weird
gAlienLifeformMasturbating I get, becoming addicted to something you enjoy I get, using a third party app to try to break your addiction seems dumb but I get how desperation can make you dumb
What I absolutely can’t get is what anyone could productively do with this data. Like, I don’t even think blackmailing someone with this could work. The worst you could say about someone with it is that they had a porn habit they didn’t like and were trying to change it, and anyone rational is just gonna say “I don’t see what’s the big deal with watching porn, but good on you for attempting some kind of self improvement I guess.”