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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.

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[-] KelvarCherry@piefed.blahaj.zone 36 points 1 week ago

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?

[-] ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

It was, but the actual problem I have with the app is that it had 90% margin. Talk about quick and dirty cash grab.

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[-] Arkhive@piefed.blahaj.zone 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

EDIT: Folks very fairly pointed out the dismissiveness of my wording, and y’all are right. While I do think therapy can and does help with addictions of any type, my wording about guilt rather than addressing the actual addiction only served the humor I was going for and wasn’t respectful for the condition. I’m leaving what I wrote as is below mostly because the quip about birding and boobies still gives me a chuckle.

Men 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.

[-] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago

There’s even great tits!

[-] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Not just tits, bushtits too! And boobies of course. Can't forget the mighty cock.

[-] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 week ago

Come to NZ and see a titipounamu, morepork, kaka

[-] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Hmm. Might need a bird addiction app.

[-] Carnelian@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Are there any ASMR puppy play birds?

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

I suppose an appropriately trained parrot might do.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

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.

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.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 1 week ago

To be clear though, you should just watch the birds.

[-] BassTurd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Most people don't really even think about privacy.

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[-] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 14 points 1 week ago

$500k a month?!

To literally do nothing but jerk each other off.

[-] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I'm as straight as could be but fucking sign me up.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Straight as spaghetti till it gets wet

[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago

So say we all.

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[-] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

What a grift.

[-] Gork@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago

I wonder how many usernames are stuff like:

  • Dicksy Normus
  • A nelprober
  • Dicnbutt
  • Hugh Janus
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[-] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

I’m in the wrong industry.

Need to find a grift like this…

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

... Should have just rented out chastity cages.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago
[-] milkisklim@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

While he may use this, I believe he used something called covenant eyes.

Still a terrible idea to trust a software to not expose you in one way or another.

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[-] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

HAHA they logged their whackin' off activity into an app to upload that data to the cloud. Did they not ever think "what could go wrong with this?"

People just really let the damn phone apps run their whole lives don't they. I'm so glad I got to grow up before smartphones existed.

[-] poke@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Wow this comment section is actually awful. If you're somehow seeing this early on in the list: get out of here before it's too late. There are some really, really toxic takes in here.

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[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"Porn addiction" is being pushed by fundamentalist christians, to force a complete total porn ban, nothing more.

Sex addiction, to some degree, is literally coded into your brain, unless you're a certain kind of asexual.

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[-] d3adpaul77@lemmy.org 2 points 1 week ago

not the predictable outcome or a predatory marriage of capitalism and puritanicalism

[-] cybervseas@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Is that the one speaker of the house used with his son?

[-] evidences@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Nah that's covenant eyes or something like that.

[-] RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I wonder if I could make an app promising to get their masturbation numbers back up. I can even promise not to store data.

[-] sturmblast@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

People are so fucking weird

[-] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Masturbating 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."

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[-] TronBronson@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago
[-] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

First they came for the gooners, but being gooners they already came themselves.

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