Viral ‘Quittr’ Porn Addiction App Exposed the Masturbation Habits of Hundreds of Thousands of Users | 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
https://www.404media.co/viral-quittr-porn-addiction-app-exposed-the-masturbation-habits-of-hundreds-of-thousands-of-users/
34 Comments
Seriously
What did you think was going to happen here ?
A tale as old as time…
A number of revealing details:
>Quittr, an app that promises to help men stop watching pornography, leaked intimate data on hundreds of thousands of its users, including their masturbation habits, and lied about its security issues, 404 Media can now reveal.
>
>…
>
>Some of the data exposed includes the users’ age, how often they masturbate, and how viewing pornography makes them feel. According to the data, many of them are minors.
>
>Quittr is operated by Slater and McLaren, members of the so called App Mafia, a group of men in their early 20s who claim to have made millions of dollars on mobile app development. Slater and McLaren were recently the subjects of a long New York Magazine profile which detailed the opulent lifestyle the success of Quittr has afforded them, including driving exotic super cars and living in a Miami mansion. Slater shares videos about his lifestyle on his personal YouTube channel as well.
>
>Slater claims Quittr has been downloaded more than 1.5 million times and makes $500,000 a month. But despite these incredible numbers, the developers were somehow unable or unwilling to fix a major security flaw in the app for months.
>
>…
>
>The researcher said he contacted Slater directly on September 10, 2025 to tell him about the Quittr vulnerability.
>
>“It’s my fault fully I should’ve been on top of this, the way you pulled the database was super creative,” Slater told the researcher in a series of WhatsApp messages, which 404 Media reviewed. “So props to that, but again this is serious data and is not good at all. Working on fixing rn! Will be fixed in the next hour.”
>
>But Slater and McLaren did not fix the issue for months.
>
>…
>
>Overall, the researcher said he could access the information of more than 600,000 users of the porn quitting app, 100,000 of which identified as minors.
>
>The app also invites users to write confessions about their habits. One of these read: “I just can’t do this man I honestly don’t know what to do know more, such a loser, I need serious help.”
>
>“We were like, How can we build an app to make money? Then as I realized how large the issue was, that’s when it became more of a passion project, like, How can we help men actually become men again?” McLaren told New York Magazine.
Reading about some of the shenanigans of the developers of this app, this is just about the expected level of care and consideration to users and their data one might expect.
We are getting milked /s
21 times a month reduces the chances of prostate cancer by up to 30%. Stay healthy brothers.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/mens-health/ejaculation_frequency_and_prostate_cancer
Mike Johnson is sweating right now…
Let me guess….it was vibe coded? So they had no real understanding of app development and left their databases completely open to anyone who could navigate the also unprotected source code? Just like the Tea app.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/us/tea-safety-dating-app-hack.html
*this seriously is some Black Mirror shit, come on*
This has Mike Johnson & Son written all over this!
Imagine what this world be like if dudes could just jack off to release that pressure and just go about their day grateful for the release and now more focused on what’s important? Sinking into this anti-masturbation bullshit is like making masturbation front and center. I promise the rest of us don’t think about masturbating nearly as much as the people who hate themselves for doing it.
I’m not only the President. I’m also a client.
Lol, I wasn’t raised a quitter.
Jokes on them people knowing is my kink
Ok, I am starting to swing back around to feeling sorry for young men today. I was raised with messages that being a toxic fuck was a good thing but boys today…Jesus Christ, the messaging getting to you is so fucking disturbing.
Self-hating narcissism is the perfect cocktail for a pathetic life. Resist; you are neither special nor horrible…unless you *choose* to be (horrible).
They deserve to get hit with the entire law library for betraying trusted interactions. That should be their end.
I’m less surprised that scammers made the app than I am how they found 600K customers.
Everyone masturbates, what shitty home lives led the victims to seek help for being normal?
Any app that wants to know what you’re doing is selling it.
Why do people feel bad about jerking it?
Why do people care so much about what I watch online? >:(
Is Mike Johnson and his son in there too?
Is there an app like this but opposite that can learn my habits and curate a list of videos that meet my needs/interests.
Perhaps suggest times to take care of my special needs when it sees I’m often not doing stuff. It could schedule it for me. Maybe it could put it on my outlook calendar so coworkers won’t disturb me.
People will never come to the conclusion that an app or service that bids you give a ton of personal info to be kept locally in one place will never be safe for their personal info.
Why?
You are making 500k a month?
Why shoot yourself in the foot
Speaker Mike Johnson says what?
Let me help. There is nothing shameful about masturbation. Enjoy yourself. Life is fleeting.
Shrek meme: Can you stop giving companies your personal information for 5 minutes!
Sucks for the users but come on why are you putting your masturbating habits into an app? Lol
In my next life, I’ll just be a grifter. Ridiculous how society is man.
Oh, no! My family will discover I like adult black women with big tits!
How can I tactfully break the news to my mixed race children?
All of these dudes could have avoided this by just accepting it’s ok to get yourself off.
Paying for someone to blackmail you later is …a choice.
Random Q: why are all these startup apps spelled with a missing ‘e’? Why is it called Quittr, nor Quitter, and why is this such a massive trend?
Who could have seen this coming, except literally everyone?
500K per month. God, did I make bad career decisions
What a couple of jerkoffs.