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Privacy professionals
fromThe Verge
3 days ago

The rise of "catch a cheater" apps exploits our worst human tendencies

Apps use facial recognition to locate dating profiles, enabling peer-to-peer biometric surveillance that invades privacy and normalizes dangerous behavior.
Relationships
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

Am I doing this right?': how to master the lost art of flirting

Young adults are engaging less in traditional flirting in real life, reducing casual romantic interactions and prompting alternative social meeting methods.
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
5 days ago

So You Fell for a RobotChatfishing' Is Taking Over the Dating Apps

It's a well-worn adage of the Internet age: people often aren't what they seem to be online. But until recently, you could at least be assured that they were people. Now, though, chatfishing, a new wave of online deception, is taking over dating apps. Instead of catfishingusing an entirely fake identitypeople are using artificial intelligence to help them chat up prospective love interests and secure dates.
Artificial intelligence
#online-dating
fromFuturism
3 months ago
Online marketing

People Are Rizzing on Tinder Using ChatGPT, Then Showing Up to Dates Completely Tongue-Tied Without Their AI Crutch

fromFuturism
3 months ago
Online marketing

People Are Rizzing on Tinder Using ChatGPT, Then Showing Up to Dates Completely Tongue-Tied Without Their AI Crutch

#app-store-removal
fromTechCrunch
6 days ago
Privacy professionals

Controversial dating apps Tea & TeaOnHer have been pulled from the App Store | TechCrunch

fromTechCrunch
6 days ago
Privacy professionals

Controversial dating apps Tea & TeaOnHer have been pulled from the App Store | TechCrunch

fromWIRED
6 days ago

Tinder Launches Mandatory Facial Verification to Weed Out Bots and Scammers

During the sign-up process, new members complete a "liveness check" by taking a short video selfie within the app. The procedure collects and stores an encrypted map of information about the shape of the user's face. "We don't store a picture of your face, it's not photo recognition, it's data points about the shape of your face that are turned into a mathematical hash," says Yoel Roth, head of Trust and Safety for Match Group, which owns Tinder. Tinder then uses that "hash" to check whether a new sign-up matches an account that already exists on Tinder.
Privacy professionals
Books
fromThe Atlantic
6 days ago

A Counterpoint to Romantic Despair

A post-breakup narrator uses inventive language to challenge heteropessimism and assert renewed possibility within heterosexual relationships.
#ai-matchmaking
fromFuturism
2 weeks ago

ChatGPT Is Giving Men Such Bad Advice on Dating That It May Actually Be Trying to Keep Them Single

It's a phenomenon tied to the prevalence of text-based apps in dating. Recent surveys show that one in fiveadults under 30 met their partner on a dating app like Tinder or Hinge, and more than half are using dating apps. For years, app-based dating has been regarded as a profoundly alienating experience, a paradigm shift which coincides with a rapid rise in social isolation and loneliness.
Artificial intelligence
#gen-z
fromTechCrunch
2 weeks ago
Startup companies

Dating app Cerca will show how Gen Z really dates at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 | TechCrunch

fromFortune
3 months ago
Relationships

Dating apps are doomed because Gen Z is locked in on meet-cutes, former Hinge content lead says: 'They want to vibe their way through meeting people'

fromTechCrunch
2 weeks ago
Startup companies

Dating app Cerca will show how Gen Z really dates at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 | TechCrunch

fromFortune
3 months ago
Relationships

Dating apps are doomed because Gen Z is locked in on meet-cutes, former Hinge content lead says: 'They want to vibe their way through meeting people'

Relationships
fromBusiness Insider
2 weeks ago

High-earning men are ditching dating apps for $25,000 matchmakers - here's why

High-net-worth men are increasingly hiring luxury matchmaking services, paying tens of thousands for curated introductions to find serious, time-efficient romantic partners.
Business
fromFortune
2 weeks ago

Gen Z can't afford to date-but Grindr CEO says the real problem is how apps have monetized romance | Fortune

Gen Z avoids paid dating apps and uses free social platforms while Grindr retains users with a robust free product.
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 weeks ago

Sick of dating apps, millennials and gen Z are throwing flirting parties'

The first and only time I've used dating apps was in the spring of 2021. I'd just moved to Los Angeles and wanted to see more of the city. But I soon grew tired of the actors, musicians and DJs who hounded me to attend their events; not to mention I didn't feel safe with total strangers and I'm particular about hygiene.
Relationships
fromPadailypost
4 weeks ago

Men hit with charges after police sting

The three men who traveled to Menlo Park to meet up with a 13-year-old, who was really a police officer, were charged today by the District Attorney's Office, a prosecutor said. Police conducted a sting operation where an officer posed as a 13-year-old girl on WhatsApp and Badoo, a dating website, District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said. The officer spoke to three men, who, despite learning they were texting a minor, continued to text back, Wagstaffe said.
US news
Public health
fromBuzzFeed
1 month ago

The First Time I Saw This Term On A Dating Profile, It Felt Like A Knife To The Heart. I Hope You Never Use It.

Dating app HIV-status labels and disclosure expectations reinforce stigma and shame despite effective treatment, undetectability, and the ability to live a healthy life.
Artificial intelligence
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

Find out if AI is really helping us find 'the one' at Disrupt 2025 | TechCrunch

AI increasingly intermediates romantic relationships, shaping who people meet, altering intimacy dynamics, and raising ethical concerns about behavioral design, privacy, and emotional outsourcing.
Relationships
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

People say I come across as incredibly boring!' How to find love on the dating apps whatever the obstacles

Dating apps can yield matches quickly but often cause swipe fatigue; limiting app use or deleting apps improves chances of forming long-term relationships.
#hinge
Relationships
fromAll Singles And Married
1 month ago

Discovering True Love in the Digital Age: My Honest Review of Love Linko - The Ultimate Dating App for Singles and Couples Alike

Love Linko combines dating app matching with moderated forums for singles and married users, fostering authentic intimacy, practical relationship advice, and safe community interaction.
UK news
fromwww.independent.co.uk
1 month ago

Police think there may be hundreds more victims of rapist who transmitted STIs

Jonathan Carl was jailed for 17 years for rape and reckless transmission of an STI after potentially infecting hundreds of men via dating apps.
#sexual-assault
#ai
fromBustle
1 month ago

Exclusive: See How Lily James Prepared To Play Bumble's Founder In 'Swiped'

I feel such a huge responsibility playing a real person, so I would sit in front of her MasterClass and mimic along, copy the hand gestures,
Relationships
#bumble
fromInc
1 month ago
Marketing

How Bumble's Latest Marketing Campaign Aims to Get Users Swiping Again

fromInc
2 months ago
E-Commerce

Bumble Is Losing Paying Users. Here's Why Its Competitors Are Winning

fromwww.cbc.ca
3 months ago
Relationships

Bumble, Match staff cuts indicate people looking for connections are splitting from dating apps | CBC News

fromInc
1 month ago
Marketing

How Bumble's Latest Marketing Campaign Aims to Get Users Swiping Again

fromInc
2 months ago
E-Commerce

Bumble Is Losing Paying Users. Here's Why Its Competitors Are Winning

fromwww.cbc.ca
3 months ago
Relationships

Bumble, Match staff cuts indicate people looking for connections are splitting from dating apps | CBC News

fromInsideHook
1 month ago

Are Outdoor Games the New Dating Apps?

For all that dating apps feel ubiquitous in 2025, there's an equally forceful counterweight to them: frustration with dating apps and everything about them. But there's a growing body of evidence that people, especially in Gen Z, are logging out of these apps for good. In an article for WIRED, Daniel Roman observed that the percentage of Americans who were using dating apps dropped from 18% to 15% between 2019 and 2022.
Relationships
#ai-dating
Relationships
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

How, When, and Why to Ask to Be Exclusive in Dating

Exclusivity provides interpersonal safety to explore whether a dating relationship can grow and requires a direct, affirmative conversation rather than assumptions.
fromAdExchanger
2 months ago

Dating App Pure Swipes Right On Programmatic CTV Ad Buying | AdExchanger

Back when the dating app first launched in 2012, it was a completely anonymous hookup app - a "quick and safe way to find sex right now," according to one tagline from back in the day. But Pure has since pivoted to what Chantal Pesulima, the app's director of integrated marketing, calls a "full-blown dating app" focused on sexual openness, mutual consent and safety.
Marketing
fromMail Online
2 months ago

Are YOU dating a psychopath? Scientists reveal key sign to look for

Analysis revealed that men who reported having more sex through dating apps were likely to score higher in psychopathy. The researchers, from the Hochschule Döpfer University of Applied Sciences in Germany, warned this behaviour could reflect exploitative tendencies and an ability to target vulnerable individuals. 'Individuals with a faster life strategy, particularly men high in psychopathy and sexual desires, report more mating success via dating apps,' they said.
Psychology
Relationships
fromIndependent
2 months ago

Asking for a friend: When I tell women on dating apps that I'm 5ft 4in, they either say no or just block me. I feel so rejected and frustrated.

Height-based preferences on dating apps cause frequent rejection and lower self-confidence, but height should not be the sole criterion for choosing a partner.
fromwww.bbc.com
2 months ago

My ex stalked me, so I joined a 'dating safety' app. Then my address was leaked

When she finally got back on to the dating scene, she was wary. She decided to sign up for a new app where women could do background checks and share experiences of men they were dating. Users of the US-based Tea Dating Advice app, which is only available in America, could flag if potential partners were married or registered sex offenders. They could run reverse image searches to check against people using fake identities.
Privacy professionals
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Splitsville review open marriage comedy is a silly, scrappy and sex-filled good time

Splitsville satirizes ethical non-monogamy clichés through a rollicking, sensitive comedy about four friends navigating open-relationship boundaries and awkward romantic mishaps.
#artificial-intelligence
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Ghosting, breadcrumbing, one-night stands: are we done with dating apps? - podcast

More than a million people in the UK left dating apps last year, indicating a severe problem that has led these apps into a financial crisis.
Relationships
Relationships
fromBustle
2 months ago

These 3 Zodiac Signs Swipe Right On Everyone

Different people have unique approaches to swiping on dating apps, influenced by their zodiac sign.
Digital life
fromFuturism
2 months ago

In New Dating App, You Talk to an AI Matchmaker Who Sets You Up on Dates With Strangers

Dating apps often lead to superficial interactions, and Sitch aims to provide a more refined matching process using AI.
#match-group
fromFortune
2 months ago
US politics

Match Group's rape problem: A lawsuit alleges that inaction by Tinder and Hinge's owner allowed abusers to stay on the apps

Hinge's growth is notable, but concerns over user safety and a shareholder lawsuit challenge Match Group's leadership.
fromFast Company
4 months ago
Marketing tech

Why Bumble and Tinder are suddenly scrambling to keep up with Hinge

Spencer Rascoff aims to revive Match Group by focusing on consumer insights, differentiating Hinge's strategy from Tinder's financial-centric approach.
fromFortune
2 months ago
US politics

Match Group's rape problem: A lawsuit alleges that inaction by Tinder and Hinge's owner allowed abusers to stay on the apps

Marketing tech
fromFast Company
4 months ago

Why Bumble and Tinder are suddenly scrambling to keep up with Hinge

Spencer Rascoff aims to revive Match Group by focusing on consumer insights, differentiating Hinge's strategy from Tinder's financial-centric approach.
Apple
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago

There's another 'Tea' app going viral. This time, it's for men.

TeaOnHer app allows men to post anonymously about women, replicating features of the original Tea app.
#tinder
fromTechCrunch
2 months ago
E-Commerce

Tinder explores a redesign, dating 'modes,' and college-specific features to boost engagement | TechCrunch

Women
fromInsideHook
4 months ago

Tinder Is Testing Out a New Height Filter

Tinder is testing a height filter, available only to paying subscribers, to help users refine their dating preferences.
Marketing tech
fromMail Online
4 months ago

Tinder is testing a HEIGHT filter - it's 'over for short men'

Tinder has introduced a height filter in its Premium Discovery feature, sparking mixed reactions among users.
fromTechCrunch
2 months ago
E-Commerce

Tinder explores a redesign, dating 'modes,' and college-specific features to boost engagement | TechCrunch

#cybersecurity
fromFortune
3 months ago
Privacy professionals

The Tea app was intended to help women date safely. Then hackers leaked 72,000 images online, including users' selfies

fromFortune
3 months ago
Privacy professionals

The Tea app was intended to help women date safely. Then hackers leaked 72,000 images online, including users' selfies

#fraud
fromSFGATE
3 months ago

Calif. man accused of scamming dating app users out of $2 million

According to the Central District of California U.S. Attorney's Office, a California man was indicted on 13 counts of wire fraud for scamming dating app users out of $2 million.
US news
fromBusiness Insider
3 months ago

Dating is a nightmare. Whisper network apps won't save us.

Tea allows women to reverse image search men's photos, run background checks on suitors, and post reviews of men, marking them as green-flag or red-flag daters.
Women
Relationships
fromMail Online
3 months ago

Men really are 'punching' on dating apps, study confirms

Dating apps reveal men often swipe above their attractiveness level, leading to mismatched successful matches with women of similar desirability.
Relationships
fromFast Company
3 months ago

'So sorry, I grabbed your salad': Women are reportedly stealing Sweetgreen salads to meet men

Online dating and app burnout have led to unconventional methods for initiating connections, such as stealing lunches.
Relationships
fromenglish.elpais.com
3 months ago

The emotional burden of flirting on your phone: Lies, ghosts, and crumbs of attention

Dating apps have fundamentally changed romantic connections, introducing new terms and behaviors that impact users' mental health.
New York City
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months ago

Leftists are determined to date each other - and not settle for liberals: Politics are the new religion'

Zohran Mamdani's Hinge success story boosts interest in the app among eligible New Yorkers.
Relationships
fromIndependent
3 months ago

Asking for a friend: I'm struggling with dating apps as I don't want to send nudes and am not interested in casual sex. Will I be single forever?

Casual dating can be frustrating and overwhelming, especially after a long-term relationship.
Relationships
fromIndependent
4 months ago

Friday night at a fake wedding - I went to Ireland's first ever wedding for single people to see what happens

Singletons are exploring innovative ways to connect romantically, moving away from traditional dating apps.
#ai-in-dating
fromFortune
4 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Hinge's CEO says dating isn't something people should leave up to AI

AI can enhance dating experiences, but will not replace human connection.
fromFast Company
4 months ago
Artificial intelligence

How singles are using AI to improve their online dating success

Singles are increasingly using AI tools to enhance their dating experiences.
Relationships
fromBusiness Insider
4 months ago

I hate online dating, but as a single woman living abroad, the pros outweigh the cons

Dating apps can be a frustrating yet entertaining experience for singles.
Cultural differences amplify the challenges of online dating.
Female friendships provide support and humor amidst dating frustrations.
Marketing tech
fromTechCrunch
4 months ago

You can now set up double dates with friends on Tinder | TechCrunch

Tinder's new Double Date feature allows users to team up with friends and chat with matches, alleviating dating pressure.
Marketing tech
fromWIRED
4 months ago

An Experimental New Dating Site Matches Singles Based on Their Browser Histories

Browser Dating app focuses on unique one-time payment model for unlimited matches, contrary to typical subscription-based approaches.
Women
fromIndependent
4 months ago

Simon Bourke: Tinder's height filter eliminates short kings - but beware the wrath of those left in the shadows

Women dominate power dynamics on dating apps, leaving men competing for attention.
US news
fromABC7 Los Angeles
4 months ago

Dating apps tied to kidnapping of US citizens in Mexico, embassy says, prompting security alert

American citizens have been kidnapped after meeting individuals on dating apps in Mexico, prompting cautionary advice from the U.S. embassy.
Yoga
fromYoga Journal
4 months ago

25 Dating App Bio Ideas for the Yoga Obsessed

Yoga-themed dating bios capture spiritual intentions and attract like-minded partners.
Growth hacking
fromThe Verge
4 months ago

Grindr's new Right Now feature gives the app a spicy live feed

Grindr's Right Now feature enhances user connections by offering a live feed of intention-based posts that disappear after an hour.
fromTechCrunch
5 months ago

Meet LoveJack, the dating app designed for users to find love using just five words | TechCrunch

Kevin Malone from 'The Office' once said, 'Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?' This reflects the essence of LoveJack.
Marketing tech
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