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Data-Hungry Dating Apps Are Worse Than Ever for Your Privacy (foundation.mozilla.org)
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[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 5 points 5 months ago

5 years ago was the beginning/middle of the descent. It's so much worse now. ... plenty of fish is a streaming platform now. 🤮 🔫

I'm so unbelievably undesirable I've been on the apps long enough to watch the whole thing play out. Over the course of 10 years these apps have been absolutely tripping over themselves to become a shitty tinder 2.0 clone. All the offices now have "Always Enshittify" plastered on their walls as their daily affirmations since they were almost all bought by Match Group.

Okcupid wants $50 a month