hat you are describing. HOWEVER, I never for once in my life thought that they could be selling my information so that's... scary af.
Tindr and bumble won't ask for your credit card info unless you pay for premium. They are 100% free to use. I just never realized that they're selling our info to get money to keep running the apps.
anonymous 3 hours ago
"I have tried tindr and bumble and they're nothing like what you are describing"
You might have lucked out because the sites I did try make sure that you had to use their system to communicate. This was to ensure lock in, and that you would continue to pay. They had good motivation to keep you from using regular e-mail and thus you being able to ditch them.
And yes, there were/are plenty of liars on those sites, as it's very easy for someone to claim that they are something they're not on the internet.
Maybe things changed in the past 20 years, but my initial experience was a real turn off.
Anything you enter into those forms when registring gets saved on their servers. Hitting cancel on the payment page does not remove what was entered before it. It's a good side hustle for them.
anonymous 1 hour ago
" I just never realized that they're selling our info to get money to keep running the apps"
Telemetry is big business. Google does it, Facebook does it, even the small town newspaper site does it.
That's why almost every site you go to these days is bogged down with Javashit, often using Javashit telemetry 'applets' from several different information brokers running at once.
That said, we have got to be getting to the point of oversaturation by now, and really, how valuable is "Suzy Q went to site Y this month X times"? But apparently this kind of info is worth big money. :\
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