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I don't believe the article mentions it, but apparently plenty enough to generate that kind of top line.


That's believable. It's not like most people would be terribly motivated creating an artificially inflated supply of millions of fake dicks online...

...The only group I could imagine being motivated to do it would be a spouse's union, paying a water army to DDOS "watering holes" for affairs with honeypots, which report anyone caught attempting to cheat to a collective database for identification and confrontation.

But I think this would be a waste of resources in today's world - the high profile breach was probably enough to prevent anything as big as Ashley Madison from rising to prominence for a long time yet. And those motivated enough to have an affair would adjust to seek another path. It could definitely have a negative further overall effect on marital trust.


People just use normal dating sites these days.


One-timers who got scammed. I mean there were basing women at all. (They don’t say how many of the “1%” were scam accounts or sex workers.)




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