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Just checked: Ashley Madison is still in business and reached their highest (known) peak of users in 2019, about 4 years after the leak.

• anonym29 3y ago
  This begs the question: who's more stupid, the business that negligently screwed their customers, or the customers who came back after?
  • jstarfish 3y ago
    There is an unstated implication that negligence doesn't happen twice. I'd sooner assume the membership count comprises bots and repeat throwaway/voyeur accounts.
  • yieldcrv 3y ago
    it wasn't that customers came back, aspiring women noticed the gap in the market from the data leaks and chose to be sex workers, replacing the sock puppet users with real women. the hack and leak was a blessing in disguise for ashley madison. this is already reported but once you leave the corporate sex worker exclusionary echo chamber it becomes more obvious how efficient that market is, from the supply side it would alter most of your assumptions and make a lot of things more obvious without needing to be “studied”