Viral anti-masturbation app exposed sensitive user data

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• zeppo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • tonytins@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Blackmail? There’s an app for that!

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    • thesohoriots@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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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  • Carnelian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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• wuffah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • Danitos@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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    • InfiniteStruggle@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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).

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  • andybytes@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    project 2025

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• IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Holy fuck TIL there is an anti-masturbation app.

  Wtf

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  • zeppo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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    • melfie@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Really? Is touching the ding ding dong such a big deal? I’m not saying porn, a healthy guy can find this sex drive without stimulating material.

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    • IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Holy shit

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Lots of countries have their fascists and their dictators but the American right are just plain weird.

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    • Eh_I@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • lemmyng@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      uBlock Origin (Lite) will make those pesky ads a distant memory.

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    • dangercake@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m going to need a t-shirt with that on

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    it’s a slideshow of Republican appointees.

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  • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, what does that even mean? And why would anyone want it?

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    • Glytch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I have always had a very high sex drive until I went on some medication that actually kills your libido(side-effect).

      At one point I was consuming porn 16-18 hours a day(including sleep). I was going to sleep playing nsfw asmr glucking just to get some restful sleep. I had collected almost 20tb of content. sufficient to say, I had a problem.

      my addiction was so bad that at one point I was listening to audio erotica on my way to and from work. you don’t know shame until you look at the car next to you at a stop, and there’s a disgusted mother staring you down while your car is screaming to “breed me daddy”.

      Not long after I started my meds, I deleted my entire fap cache. if it wasn’t for the meds, I would probably still be doing the same shit. an app like this would have been a nice tool to keep me in check.

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  • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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  • super_user_do@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Many people are addicted and what to quit. It’s a legitimate thing 

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• Pudutr0n@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  what a jerk off thing to do

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  • crandlecan@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Have my upvote and jack off 🖕😡

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• sundray@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Leak? Surely they mean “unintended emission.”

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  • DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Surprise decentralized backup.

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    IT’S NORMAL OKAY

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    • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I understand this happens to a lot of apps…

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• SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yep seems likely Jesus was a real historical figure. Possibly an anti capitalist activist who got executed, and after his death the mythology started to spring up.

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    • MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Probably some troll time travelers healed him in the tomb. New religion starts.

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• GutterRat42@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is this the one Mike Johnson and his son use?

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  • GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wha… t. Fuck, I hate society.

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      ask his “MYSTERIOUS son”

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• matlag@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oh no, someone might find out they jerk off EVERY DAY!

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  • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Rookie numbers

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    • thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      doing it on multiple days every day

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• Chivera@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Mama didn’t raise no quitter!

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• goatinspace@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  App has AI therapist… We’ve seen Gemini “helping” volnurable people already.

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  • crandlecan@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Helping them right over the cliff 🤘

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• 87Six@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  ❌ antifa ✅ antifap

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• Canconda@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • Redacted@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • XLE@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • Canconda@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• expatriado@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  when no nut november turns into no privacy april

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  • Zink@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No Privacy Perpetuity

    :/

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• RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Their security was a bit wank.

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• discocactus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  LMAO

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• RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s good that the article mentioned that pein addiction isn’t real (or at least isn’t a specific addiction), but weird that it left out the ties between no-Fap and the alt-right/incel community.

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  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh no, is that what they’re doing?

    They’re convincing incels to nofap?

    I never really thought about the overlap but you’re totally right on that.

    God, that explains so much.

    My dudes, rub your dick for a bit before you listen to Trump. Trust me on this.

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    • lemmyng@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Jacking/jilling off is a stresss reliever. NoFap and other alt-right groups try to dissuade any form of stress relief because they get paid to keep people angry.

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    • RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      PNC

      Do I want to ask?

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• Kraiden@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I'm shocked

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• Formfiller@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Doesn’t Mike Johnston and his son use this?

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  • lemmyng@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    CovenantEyes, which is basically a surveillance app that you set up between you and an “accountability partner” who can see every webpage you browse and be alerted if it’s potentially pornographic.

    Basically “JESUS IS WATCHING YOU”.

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    • Formfiller@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Gross

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• Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  At first I thought this was stupid, and it is for other reasons, but then I realized that gen z and alpha in the US might legitimately need counseling. Teens and young adults are having less sex. I’d imagine they have a similar sex drive compared to previous generations, but their outlet is themselves.

  An app will never be the answer, but there’s assuredly a higher than average number of sex addicts currently feeling quiet shame for a basic human instinct gone haywire. If not for the fact that I’ve been hearing middle schoolers talking about gooning, this thought would never have struck me.

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  • SlimePirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I am pretty sure they have lower drive actually

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    • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Why do you say that?

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  • Janx@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    there’s assuredly an average number of sex addicts currently feeling shame for a basic human instinct gone haywire.

    Except “sex addiction” isn’t recognized as a real affliction, as least not in the US.

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wankr.

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• bold_atlas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The fuck kind of headline did I just read? Only in this timeline.

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• mr_account@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Bunch of wankers

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• kokesh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How does it work? Is it showing photos of that orange cunt tRump?

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• devolution@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well sonny, do you whack off? Well I won’t tell anyone for 3 bit coin.

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• Alpha71@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I bet it did.

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• andybytes@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Would it be better to get doxed on purpose and walk around like GG Allin?

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• andybytes@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  hahahahaha gooooon hahahahaha I usually feel better afterwards …poor guy. Who gives a shit what people do in the sheets. I need money YO. I can’t believe people pay mind to all this…SHAME SHAME… new revenue streams next they will be tracking your wet dreams. They already tracking duh poops… mooooo moooo we are cattle. ahhhh gawd

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• judgyweevil@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s why if I use apps to track sensitive data (can also be heath related, bad habits etc) i use a generic app, with secret codes and acronyms instead of plain labels

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• sonofearth@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you think you’re wanking too much, go to a therapist, talk to a friend or parents or just try to find a partner. What the fuck a computer program is going to do to get you to do stop wanking.

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