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

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    3 months ago

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

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

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          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
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    “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.

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      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

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

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

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          Many Christians believe it is sinful, because generally they are uptight as hell about anything regarding sexuality.

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          I think the porn addiction thing is that you train your brain to seek the reward of sexual pleasure through the cheapest means possible: porn. Cheap as in fast, efficient, and often focusing on exactly what you want. Brain learns, “gee, this is a lot easier this way” and suddenly it’s more difficult to feel engaged with the more natural processes for sexy time.

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        Maybe that’s why he can’t keep up with the news? He should turn the notifications off.

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

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          As someone who dealt for way too many years with a heroin addiction, I keep reading things like this and wanting to say stuff like ‘porn addiction isn’t a real addiction.’ But TBF I’ve never had a porn addiction and don’t know what it’s like, so I can’t say that. But there are undeniable differences.

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            That’s a reasonable position that doesn’t invalidate the experiences of others [genuine]. There are definitely differences between heroin addiction and porn addiction, but either can be life ruining. Heroin tends to be more dangerous, but that can depend on what kind of porn the person is addicted to, just ask David Carradine.

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      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

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      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.

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    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.