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Just days after OKCupid called out Mozilla’s CEO Brendan Eich over his support of a ban on gay marraige, Mozilla announced today that Eich “has chosen to step down.” [Mozilla via Re/code]

Why OKCupid Took a Stand Against Mozilla’s Anti-Gay Rights CEO

Today, most tech companies are polluting the internet with stupid pranks. But there’s one brave statement being made on the internet that isn’t a dumb joke at all. OKCupid is blocking Mozilla Firefox users from its service with a message encouraging them to use other web browsers. Why? Mozilla’s CEO supports anti-gay causes, and as…

OKCupid Website Blocks Firefox Because of Mozilla CEO’s Anti-Gay Beliefs

Mozilla Firefox users who try to use popular dating service OKCupid are currently being shown the above message, encouraging them not to use Firefox. The reason? Mozilla’s new CEO Brendan Eich opposes gay marriage. That’s how you play hardball. Here’s the full text of the message, which is followed by links to Google Chrome, Internet…

Tacos, Moviefone, and Vibrators: My Most Interesting OkCupid Date Ever

I was excited about this one. It had been a while since I’d dusted off the old OkCupid profile. I’d been working a lot and thinking about my ex too much, and this girl looked cute. So, when she actually agreed to a date, I was thrilled. This one felt important! She suggested brunch, which…

How A Mathematician Hacked OkCupid to Find His Girl

Mathematicians aren’t renowned for their social skills. But in a quest to find love, Chris McKinlay from UCLA realised he could use his analytical skills to his advantage—by hacking OkCupid. Wired has a great feature about how the 35-year-old PhD student decided he “should be dating like a mathematician.” Realizing his compatability, as calculated by…

Here’s How OkCupid Uses Math to Find Your Match

Everyone you know has an online dating profile and if they say they don’t they are lying to you. We can poke fun at it all we want, but there’s actually a mathematical formula behind the digital match-making. In this video, one of OkCupid’s founders, Christian Rudder, explains how his site’s algorithm works. When two…

Why finding love is like finding alien intelligence

Current estimates put the number of stars in the Milky Way at well over 100 billion, each of which is thought to have at least one planet in its orbit. Assuming at least some of these planets have given rise to intelligent life capable of communicating with Earth, why haven’t we heard from them yet?…

Ask an OkCupid Founder for Any Last-Minute Valentine’s Day Advice

OkCupid: you use it to find both love or random hookups, and since tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, you’re probably looking for at least one of those. Accordingly, we have Sam Yagan, one of the dating site’s founders, here to answer all your burning (let’s hope not) questions. Looking for a last minute date? Want to…

Horse_Ebooks Tweets Are the Best Way to Deal With OkCupid Creeps

If you’re a female with a pulse and a profile on OKCupid, you’ve gotten a molesty message or two. Maybe you ignore. Maybe you say you’re not interested. Here’s a better tactic: just respond with non-sequitur spam-sounding tweets from @Horse_ebooks. Believe it or not, some very earnest dudes actually think this constitutes flirting, as documented…

Who Does Facebook Search Screw the Most?

Graph Search, which we’re going to call Facebook search from here on out because nobody wants to read or write “Graph Search,” is a dramatic new way to browse Facebook. But its implications spill over its rivals—which companies lose the most? https://gizmodo.com/heres-what-using-the-new-facebook-search-looks-like-5976201 It’s hard to give Facebook’s new search engine a fair appraisal, because it’s…

OkCupid App Bug Exposed Email Addresses and Birth Dates

OKCupid’s new blind date app came out today, to some fanfare and probably a little more mockery. But it’s hit a snag: Apparently, it was coughing up users’ emails and birth dates for anyone who bothered to dig for them. https://gizmodo.com/okcupids-new-blind-date-app-aims-to-find-you-love-or-r-5976070 The information was leaked when you “tweaked” the web traffic info from the app,…

Genius Uses OkCupid To Get a “Date” With the Scumbag That Stole His Phone

What do you do when your iPhone is stolen? Cry? Get a new one? Scream at the sky? How about tracking down the thief by luring him to a sexy date over OkCupid and then threatening him with a hammer so he gives it back? That last one worked out pretty well for Nadav Nirenberg.…

Today at 8:52 PM Is Your Best Chance to Find an Online Date

Researchers say that if you want to land a date online this year, your best chance will be tonight at 8:52 PM. Why 8:52 PM? Because the combination of going back to work and New Year’s resolutions will make millions of people sign onto their Internet dating sites looking for a date. The more people…

How Guys Talk to Cute Girls on OKCupid

Online dating, like real life dating, can get a little skeevy because people are lame and pervy and also, lame and pervy. So to see the type of lame and pervy responses that a cute girl would get while on a dating service like OKCupid, a guy created a fake profile with a picture of…

These OKCupid Posters Are Hilariously Accurate

Avner Geller has created a series of hilarious posters that are inspired by the type of things you always see in someone’s OKCupid profile. Geller based the posters around typical responses to ‘you should message me if…’, ‘on a typical Friday night I’m…’ and ‘six things I could never do without’. What’s hilarious about the…

OKCupid Wants to Match You With a Roommate You Bone Once and Never Speak to Again

One time I went on an OKCupid date with a guy who ordered hot wings, licked his fingers, and wiped a fountain of sweat off his forehead with a paper napkin. Needless to say, I never went out with him again. It was a very dark time. And if you’re at an equally low point…

Turning to Reddit for OkCupid Advice Is Horrifying and Depressing

Not everyone is lucky in love, or in life. Sometimes that’s just the way it is—highs and lows, ebbs and flows. But if you’re striking out on OkCupid, here’s an idea that will not help you at all: Crowdsourcing your romantic woes on Reddit. Reddit is great for some things—startling videos, startling racism, celebrity Q&A,…

OK Cupid Wants You to Jump Off a Bridge

Today’s my birthday. Yaaay old drinks party Facebook shots punch hangover whatever. Anyway, this is the crap OKCupid sent me today. Which, it seems, it also sent me last year. And is going to send me every year until I die—probably from hurling myself off a building. Now, I’m just fine, thank you! But man,…

How much of your online dating profile do people actually read?

If you’re trying to attract men in San Francisco who like to visit coffee shops, you may want to skip filling in your “about me” section, and spend as much time as possible picking out your very best profile picture. According to consumer research company AnswerLab, men spend 65 percent more time looking at photos…

My Brief OkCupid Affair With a World Champion Magic: The Gathering Player

This story sounds mean. It’s about a girl judging a boy because he’s a nerd (like so many of us!) that she met on OkCupid. But that’s the point: Judging people on shallow stuff is human nature, and the magic and absurdity of online dating is how immediately and directly it throws that into relief.…