Data-Hungry Dating Apps Are Worse Than Ever for Your Privacy

Your money or your privacy? In 2024, most dating apps want both. And there’s still no guarantee your sensitive information will be kept safe.

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Worse, they're incentivized not to get you matched with anyone because once you're paired up, you're going to delete your account.

So it's all this data collection and lack of privacy for all of it to be used against you actually finding a partner, instead dedicated to making you lonely so you keep spending money on the app.
- And spending money only gives the illusion of making a difference, because now especially when you’ve proven you’re a money spending customer, they don’t want to lose you.
  
  Totally anecdotal, but I met my current partner not long after subscribing to the paid tier of Tinder. Those super likes came in handy. This was like 5 years ago though not sure how different it is now. I have to imagine it’s worse just like everything else.
- "once you're paired up, you're going to delete your account" woah woah woah, I never said that.
Heck, even my bank app informed me that they changed their privacy policy to allow sharing their customers data with advertisers. That's N26 for the record.
- N26 is not a bank though. It would be interesting to see the difference with a real bank.
Well, of course dating apps want your date-a.

(I'm just kidding and sincerely hate this.)
Never touched a dating app, but I've been married since 2014. But I do remember trying in my late teen/early twenties of flirting in chatrooms and such XD

Ya know the ASL era

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