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

foundation.mozilla.org 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.

Hacker News @lemmy.smeargle.fans Most dating apps sell and share users' personal data

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Tbh, maybe someone should try making an open-source dating app.

You know what, being a dev myself that's something I'll try as a hobby project. We'll see how it work out.

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- Making a dating app is easy. Getting the users is not.
  
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  Getting women* users is not
  
  There ain't never a shortage of thirsty males haha
  
  Well maybe after ww2 there was a time... But you get the point.
  
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- Honestly, dating apps are one of the cases for a federated system. Use whatever frontend you want, no one person owns the backend so they can’t sleazily monetize you. Probably would need to be a bit more cryptographic than something like lemmy or mastodon though.
  
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- I know about:
  Alova
  
  License: MPL-2.0
  
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  As always someone already thought of it 😂.
  
  I'll take a look.
  
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- IDK much about it, but this exists:
  
  https://github.com/Alovoa/alovoa
  
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- With activityhub gaining traction, I actually think it's possible. You essentially self host your profile, which gets federated around. You swipe left/right, thereby accepting federation from a match of blocking.
  
  This could work.
  
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  Could be a good idea to differentiate from exiating solutions.
  
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- Keep us posted pls.
  
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  Will do, but don't expect anything for at least a few month. 😆
  
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- If you need machine learning to match people, send me a message lol
  
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  Depends on how it is used. But I don't think it should be used for the matching process itself though. Maybe to help match interest (tags) between each other, like giving a connection score between two of them, but other than that, I see no other privacy respecting way to use that.
  Moreover, on which data would we train on? I don't think there is any anonymized dating app dataset around.
  
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- Duolicious is one. Its user base is mostly 4channers though.
  
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- You know what, being a dev myself that’s something I’ll try as a hobby project. We’ll see how it work out.
  
  That's what heroes do
  
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- Good idea. Let me know when you are finished so I can summon my army of catfish scammers, porn bots, and data skimmers. After we are break it we will than databreach it and sell all that wonderful data on the dark web.
  
  The situation as it stands now you need a lot of security to run something like this. Which involves a lot of money. Which means you have to charge users. All these wonderful open source decentralized things only work if you can assume some level of good faith.
  
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Forget dating apps. Is there a Lemmy community like R4R? If there is, I can't find one.

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- Is there a Lemmy community like R4R? If there is, I can't find one.
  
  Just did a search, and there are 3 with none active.
  
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I know that, and I hate it. Yet, I do not know any other way to meet hot singles in my area (or not in my area).

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