Now, 404 Media reports that Quittr leaked data about hundreds of thousands of users’ masturbation habits as well as lied about its security issues.

      • Glytch@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        3 hours ago

        Because porn addiction is a real thing and some people who suffer from it want help.

    • zeppo@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      33
      ·
      9 hours ago

      The US speaker of the house Mike Johnson has mentioned many times how he and his son monitor each other’s masturbation habits through an app

      • melfie@lemy.lol
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        10
        ·
        6 hours ago

        Are the app’s servers hosted on Epstein island? A father and son sharing chicken choking habits just sounds creepy.

        • zeppo@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          20 minutes ago

          It’s quite creepy and I can definitely picture these uptight evangelical Christian type people thinking it’s totally normal. So weird.

    • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      22
      ·
      11 hours ago

      Can you believe the developers of that app are paying real money for ads for it? I get Quittr ads online and Facebook all the time. Someone is paying money to try and convince me to not to wank. I can’t imagine a bigger waste of money.

      • IWW4@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        10
        ·
        11 hours ago

        The part that really blows my mind is that someone is paying for this app…

        • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          8
          ·
          11 hours ago

          Same but then I found out that most people I know pay close to $500/year in subscriptions alone. Some don’t even remember all the subscriptions they have! A guy at my work was saying that money was really tight and he saved a ton just by cancelling his Adobe and Capcut subscriptions. That’s not on top of at least 3-4 streaming platforms.

    • Squizzy@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      11 hours ago

      I am next to certain this is the app I got to track smoking ages ago, they must have thought I wnked 20 a day at work

  • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    24
    ·
    16 hours ago

    Just jerk off. As long as you don’t rub your dick raw it’s healthy. And Jesus doesn’t give a fuck. Mostly because he is not real you dingus.

    • grue@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      6 hours ago

      There’s no more reason to doubt the existence of a Jewish carpenter who pissed off the government and got nailed up for it than there is to doubt the existence of the Roman official who ordered the nailing.

      The supernatural stuff is a different matter.

  • zeppo@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    179
    ·
    1 day ago

    Huh, I wonder if I should share intimate potentially embarrassing and blackmail worthy details with some random tech company who had an app

      • thesohoriots@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        24
        ·
        1 day ago

        Blackmailr? Shoot, sign me up! Intake question 1: Have you ever whacked it on a plane to join the “half-mile-high club?”

        • AbidanYre@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          24
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          edit-2
          1 day ago

          My cousin Walter jerked off in public once. True story. He was on a plane to New Mexico when all of a sudden the hydraulics went. The plane started spinning around, going out of control. So he decides it’s all over and whips it out and starts beating it right there. So all the other passengers take a cue from him and they start whipping it out and beating like mad. So all the passengers are beating off, plummeting to their certain doom, when all of a sudden, the hydraulics kick back in, and the plane rights itself. It lands safely and everyone puts their pieces or, whatever you know, away and deboard. Nobody mentions the phenomenon to anyone else.

          • Brodie Bruce
    • Carnelian@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      14
      ·
      1 day ago

      Well, that depends, are they also charging you a ludicrous sum of money each month? It would make me feel a lot more confident sharing my intimate details if they also required my credit card. The only thing that could set my mind more at ease would be extensive biometrics

  • matlag@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    24
    ·
    20 hours ago

    After the initial amazement, reason kicked back in: of course there would be an app for that, and of course some people would use it and share their intimate life with a company they know nothing about, because it has a bold line “We value your privacy” somewhere on its website.

  • wuffah@lemmy.world
    cake
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    73
    ·
    edit-2
    1 day ago

    “Porn addiction,” like “sex addiction,” isn’t recognized by the DSM-5, which classifies mental disorders. While porn-viewing can be compulsive, like other behaviors, research suggests that perceived porn addiction predicted distress over actual porn use itself. Yet, the idea of “porn addiction” persists in the U.S., which lacks comprehensive sex education requirements in many states; only 37 percent of states require sex education to be medically accurate, according to Boston University.

    What a perfect example of how sexuality is suppressed, controlled, then monetized in the US, and the harm it causes.

    Get ready for age verification data breaches like this, except on a worldwide scale.

    • Danitos@reddthat.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      11
      ·
      21 hours ago

      What a perfect example of how sexuality is suppressed, controlled

      You reminded me of a post I saw in r/catholicism. OP wanted to stop masturbating, but wasn’t able to overcome the urge and felt very bad about it, knowing it was wrong, and was asking advice. All the comments were in the line of “Just trust and submit to Jesus and he’ll help you”.

      WTF… I felt bad for OP and other people in a situation like that.

      • InfiniteStruggle@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        4 minutes ago

        The subtext there is basically that if you’re still not able to shake the habit, you haven’t trusted or prayed enough, and that’s why Jesus isn’t helping.

      • Passerby6497@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        6 hours ago

        All the comments were in the line of “Just trust and submit to Jesus and he’ll help you”.

        Stupid sexy Jesus

        Climbs onto the St Andrews Cross to submit

      • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        6 hours ago

        It’s like people who reply “rtfm”, except these people actually think they are helping, while the rtfm replier just thinks the question asker isn’t worthy of their knowledge (or wants to hide that they don’t know while maintaining their “I am wise” persona).

          • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            26 minutes ago

            Yeah, though getting useful information out of documentation is a skill on its own that not everyone possesses. But I agree that “it’s in the manual” can be useful, especially these days with how common useless manuals are.

            Like I just bought a motherboard and the paper manual it came with was useless, like it didn’t even differentiate between installing Intel or AMD coolers, so clearly didn’t contain much specific information for that particular board.

            The online manual had more useful information, unless you want more info about uefi settings, where you’ll be lucky if it has full information of uefi options for the release uefi, let alone the latest version.

    • Maeve@kbin.earth
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      12
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      1 day ago

      A lot of things take decades to make it into the DSM even after identified and labeled by professionals, and a lot of things take decades to be removed after professionals say it’s not a pathology.

      • a_gee_dizzle@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        15
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        1 day ago

        Yeah. The DSM isn’t the final word here. Obviously any superstimulus will have extreme addictive potential. There’s no reason why pornography would be any different than, say, junk food in this regard.

        • wuffah@lemmy.world
          cake
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          8
          ·
          edit-2
          1 day ago

          These are great points and are important to consider for mental and sexual health. I also think that the risks accompanying age verification’s mass surveillance and capitalism’s exploitation of America’s institutional sexual repression have a far greater and more harmful impact than porn and masturbation.

          Of course, it’s not a bad thing that there is support for people in the form of this app, but I fear that legal policy is expanding to suppress sexuality without consent. For example, data from period tracking apps has already been used to persecute women who seek abortions. If the extreme religious right in America gets their way, could data from anti-masturbation apps or age verification services be used to help prove you accessed “illegal” pornography?

          It sounds insane, because it is, but I believe this is where we’re headed in a fascist, sexually repressive America. :/

          • Maeve@kbin.earth
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            4
            ·
            23 hours ago

            That’s who we’ve always been. The boomers and silent generation had a glimmer but we’re given treats that required toeing the line, treats they guaranteed their children and grandchildren would never see, perhaps in ignorance/myopia, many of sheer selfishness and malicious intent.

    • GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      18
      ·
      19 hours ago

      I think they use covenant eyes, which sees every web page that you view and analyzes text and pictures on every web page. When there is something flagged as sexual on the web page, it sends a report to your “accountability partner”. Not sure exactly what’s on the report, but safe to assume it shows web address, date, and time that the web page was loaded.

      Huge security breach to be on the Speaker’s computer.

  • Canaconda@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    15
    ·
    1 day ago

    I’m probably wrong but I could swear I messaged them on reddit years ago to ask if they’d release a generalized quit addiction app and they basically said they only cared about nofap.

    • floofloof@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      29
      ·
      edit-2
      1 day ago

      That particular breed of American Christians who have somehow concluded that Jesus’s main message was NO WANKING.

      • Redacted@piefed.ca
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        9 hours ago

        Yep, the evangelical Christian movement in the US tends to obsess over pretty much everything except the stuff Jesus actually said.

    • XLE@piefed.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      edit-2
      1 day ago

      Are these guys part of that litigious pseudo-cult? The one whose founder sued his own mother for talking about the extremist elements?

      Apparently there was a disavowal based on legal threats, but that doesn’t mean much considering they seem to speak only in lawsuit

      • Canaconda@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        1 day ago

        I couldn’t tell ya. Don’t even know for sure if this is the same ones as our conversation was 2 comments on their r/nofap post several years ago.