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Judge Can’t Help But Make Tinder Joke While Ruling App Discriminated Against Older Users

Tinder introduced new pricing tiers in 2015, charging users a monthly fee in exchange for a few bonus features, like undoing a swipe or changing locations. These premium options are available to all paying users, with one catch: Older people have to pay more. But a California judge ruled yesterday that this pricing structure is…

Tech News Melanie Ehrenkranz

Check Out These FTC Complaints Against Tinder

Anyone who’s spent any considerable amount of time on Tinder knows that, like any service promising random lonely people quick and easy access to a horde of horned-up singles over the Internet, it kind of sucks. It’s filled with fake profiles, tries to sell you on premium services, and even if you do meet someone,…

Tech News Tom McKay

The Future of Online Dating Is Unsexy and Brutally Effective

When I give the dating app LoveFlutter my Twitter handle, it rewards me with a 28-axis breakdown of my personality: I’m an analytic Type A who’s unsettlingly sex-focused and neurotic (99th percentile). On the sidebar where my “Personality Snapshot” is broken down in further detail, a section called “Chat-Up Advice” advises, “Do your best to…

Tech News Dale Markowitz

Researchers Hack Tinder, Ok Cupid, Other Dating Apps to Reveal Your Location and Messages

Security researchers have uncovered numerous exploits in popular dating apps like Tinder, Bumble, and OK Cupid. Using exploits ranging from simple to complex, researchers at the Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab say they could access users’ location data, their real names and login info, their message history, and even see which profiles they’ve viewed. As the researchers…

Privacy & Security Sidney Fussell

Tinder Thinks ‘Sassy’ Emoji Are the Answer to Shitty Men Online

On Wednesday, Tinder introduced a new “Reactions” feature which lets users send each other a range of animated emoji. And in support of this feature, the dating app has launched a bizarre new campaign to explain how these cutesy animations are the solution to skeezy behavior online. The Reactions are emoji responses—ranging from hearts and…

Tech News Melanie Ehrenkranz

Tinder Booted From Beach House Over Unauthorized Parties for Dating App Elite

For humble swipers looking for love, double-fisting your phone and a slice of pizza on the couch is a fitting setting for mediocre matching. But for Tinder’s dating app elite, only a sick beach house party in Montauk will do. Just make sure your host has the proper permits, or the only match you’ll end…

Tech News Melanie Ehrenkranz

Tinder Keeps Swiping Right on New Ways to Take Your Money

Summer’s here, the weather’s hot and sticky. What did you expect Tinder to do? It has needs… …It needs your money to stay afloat! In the infamous app’s latest scheme to get you to pay for the ability to swipe right on your future excruciatingly awkward first date, Tinder’s offering to let you peek behind…

Tech News Alejandro Alba

Finally, a Dating App That Doesn’t Allow Talking

The thing that’s wrong with dating apps is the same thing that’s wrong with the rest of the internet: people. Or at least that’s the gamble of First, a new activity-based dating app where you’ll know next to nothing about who you’re meeting until you meet them. Does that appeal to anyone out there? I’m…

Social Media Avery Ellis

The Creepiest App of the Week Award Goes to Gymder, the ‘Instagram/Tinder for Athletes’

Let’s make a statement: Gyms are not appropriate places to find dates. Sure, there are a lot of fit people in tight clothing, sweating and grunting. But any normal person probably wants to be left alone and suffer through their workout without a stranger ogling at their beautiful body. This is exactly why Gymder, self-described…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Government Officials Can’t Stop Spying on Their Crushes

On Monday, a top prosecutor in the Brooklyn district attorney’s office was arrested amid allegations that she used an illegal wiretap to eavesdrop on a coworker and an NYPD detective. But in a twist worthy of a Mary Higgins Clark novel, the New York Times reports that the incident was part of a “love triangle…

Tech News Sophie Kleeman

Tinder Introduces More Inclusive Gender Options

Today, Tinder introduced a new update that expands the platform’s gender options. Now, instead of choosing between “man” or “woman,” a user can search for and add any term that reflects their gender identity. The new feature will live on the app’s settings screen. Users can now select the term that best describes their gender…

Tech News Sophie Kleeman

These Stories of People Who Got Scammed on Tinder Are Heartbreaking

If someone asks you to send them money on a dating app like Tinder, don’t do it. This might sound like common sense, but in a world where more people are meeting potential partners online, it can become all too easy for otherwise intelligent people to get scammed. And these Tinder horror stories are a…

Tech News Matt Novak

Tinder Somehow Found a Way to Be Even Creepier

Tinder, with its data-driven approach to romance, has always had a slightly creepy feel—it’s basically just a game to win, after all. But now, with a new feature called Smart Photos, the app has gone one step further in turning its users into human guinea pigs whose every swipe is catalogued and carefully tracked. Tinder…

Privacy & Security Sophie Kleeman

Tinder Tests New Feature to Help Horny Drunk People Be Seen by Even More Horny Drunk People

Tinder’s latest features have a very specific feel: they could lead to innocent fun, but really, they’re just a cover for far filthier activities. Tinder Social, for example, was touted as “a better way to go out with friends,” but it was really just an orgy finder. And the app’s newest foray, Tinder Boost, is…

Tech News Sophie Kleeman

Tinder Now Helps You Swipe Left on Nickelback Fans Before It’s Too Late

Music is an important indicator of a person’s character. I refuse to date anyone who regularly listens to Dave Matthews Band, for example, because Dave Matthews Band is terrible. But sometimes you don’t discover this important information until it’s too late, and then you’re stuck on a lame date with someone who has awful taste…

Tech News Sophie Kleeman

Tinder for Threesomes Got Totally Boned, Moves on

Tinder recently went to war with 3nder, an app designed to help users find some three-person fun. Tinder’s primary complaint was the similarity between the two names—3nder, evidently, was just too close to Tinder. 3nder disputed this at the time, but now, in what appears to be an effort to duck the thorny legal issues,…

Tech News Sophie Kleeman

Tinder Bans Most Teens

In case you had any doubt, Tinder is for adults only: The dating app is banning users younger than 18 starting next week. It used to be that anyone over 13 with a Facebook account could use the app, though people ages 13 to 17 could only be matched with people in that same four-year…

Tech News Angela Chen

Tinder Is Going to War Over Threesomes

You might remember 3nder, the oddly-named dating app for finding your very own three-person sexy time party. Well it seems that Tinder, a dating app with a similar name, is threatening to sue the company behind the app. According to 3nder—which can be pronounced, alternately, “three-ender” or “Thrinder,” though the company says “we embrace all…

Tech News Sophie Kleeman

Tinder’s Newest Feature Will Make it Easier to Find Orgies Near You

If there’s one thing missing from Tinder, it’s group sex. The swipe-happy app is great for getting laid old school-style—waking up in the morning next to someone you will no doubt forget about by the afternoon—but it’s less helpful for finding some more-than-four fun. Enter “Tinder Social,” a new feature the app is currently beta…

Tech News Sophie Kleeman

Canada Blames ‘Social Media’ for Gonorrhea Epidemic

If these numbers are to be believed, the residents of Alberta are swimming in sexually transmitted diseases. Last year, the Canadian province saw an 80 percent increase in cases of gonorrhea. What to blame? According to the government, “social media.” No doubt that these stats are troubling. According to the Edmonton Journal, the province reported…

Health Alissa Walker

Judge Can’t Help But Make Tinder Joke While Ruling App Discriminated Against Older Users

Check Out These FTC Complaints Against Tinder

The Future of Online Dating Is Unsexy and Brutally Effective

Researchers Hack Tinder, Ok Cupid, Other Dating Apps to Reveal Your Location and Messages

Tinder Thinks ‘Sassy’ Emoji Are the Answer to Shitty Men Online

Tinder Booted From Beach House Over Unauthorized Parties for Dating App Elite

Tinder Keeps Swiping Right on New Ways to Take Your Money

Finally, a Dating App That Doesn’t Allow Talking

The Creepiest App of the Week Award Goes to Gymder, the ‘Instagram/Tinder for Athletes’

Government Officials Can’t Stop Spying on Their Crushes

Tinder Introduces More Inclusive Gender Options

These Stories of People Who Got Scammed on Tinder Are Heartbreaking

Tinder Somehow Found a Way to Be Even Creepier

Tinder Tests New Feature to Help Horny Drunk People Be Seen by Even More Horny Drunk People

Tinder Now Helps You Swipe Left on Nickelback Fans Before It’s Too Late

Tinder for Threesomes Got Totally Boned, Moves on

Tinder Bans Most Teens

Tinder Is Going to War Over Threesomes

Tinder’s Newest Feature Will Make it Easier to Find Orgies Near You

Canada Blames ‘Social Media’ for Gonorrhea Epidemic

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