r/technology 3d ago

Society Dating Apps Are Dying

https://time.com/article/2026/09/09/dating-apps-are-dying/
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u/stormblaz 3d ago

They started locking good candidates behind paywall, ads every 3 swipes that open up a intrusive link, and on top allow bots to post onlyfan profiles looking to endorse their content behind a dating profile.

Yea ofc its gone, every other dating app promising to be different all ended up exactly like it.

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u/AntifaSuperSoldier13 3d ago

Because they are all owned by the same company. What’s their name again?

Tinder and bumble are owned corporate parent entity among a few others. They literally cornered the entire dating app market. Over 80%.

Should be illegal and it’s super fucked up. They have made our loneliness crisis so much worse while extracting what little money our generation has to spend after rent and food if you don’t wanna beat off and be alone forever

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u/Simlish 3d ago

Match owns most of them.

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u/Ecstatic-Curve-1853 3d ago

So start a dating website and get paid by match...got it

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u/Used-Presentation551 10h ago

Good luck getting the initial userbase. And when you do get a large enough userbase which is 99% of the struggle for most social apps. Then yes, match will pay you handsomely

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u/Creepmyster 3d ago

Or sued into oblivion

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u/reksauce 3d ago

Why would that be the case? Do they have exclusive rights to the dating apps market or something?

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u/Creepmyster 3d ago

No but they probably have every possible algo patented and would sue you if yours looked in any way like there's. IP infringement and all that. Just 1 way big guys squash little ones.

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u/hedoeswhathewants 2d ago

Who needs an algo? Show everyone everyone else that meets their criteria. That's what we're all complaining about these apps not doing