This page reads normally on mobile, but on desktop it's eight columns wide, scrolls horizontally, with each column being 1/4th the screen width.
Not for me. What device/os/browser are you using
The Dating Brokers: An autopsy of online love
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#12Speaking of LTV, the power users in online dating can easily be worth several hundred a month. Super swipes and super likes are about $1 each these days and in crowded dating markets you have to rely on them heavily if you're hoping to cut through the noise of everybody else's profiles. I'm actually surprised Tinder and co haven't started selling an option to bid money to have your profile be seen first in your city.…
I met all my girlfriends including my wife in nightclubs. I didn't even like nightclubs but wanted to meet women. This probably sounds as quaint as arranged marriages nowadays.
I've done the whole bars and night clubs thing pretty actively in my mid to late 20s. My issue has always been that your ability to be selective in that kind of environment only extends to the looks. Also I don't drink and have a very consistent sleeping schedule, so prowling bars for women until 3 in the morning has lost a lot of its appeal when I spend the rest of the weekend feeling like shit.
Online you get to learn a bit more about them before you invest your time: do they have similar values, similar interests, compatible lifestyles and socio economics? Not all of it is written as text, a lot of it can be easily inferred from the photos, which is why Instagram is so popular these days in online dating as a lifestyle resume. Yes, it's heavily edited to show the best parts, like a resume, but you can still draw some conclusions from it. Like with hiring for your company, the mode you do it, the better you are at guesstimating what that person is like from their profiles. Several hundred first dates and your model gets trained with a lot of data.
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#14Speaking of LTV, the power users in online dating can easily be worth several hundred a month. Super swipes and super likes are about $1 each these days and in crowded dating markets you have to rely on them heavily if you're hoping to cut through the noise of everybody else's profiles. I'm actually surprised Tinder and co haven't started selling an option to bid money to have your profile be seen first in your city.…
How is rampart fraud here unrelated to LTV? Seems quite obvious to me they are intertwined.
That's fair. I think Tinder these days returns your super likes to you if the bot you super liked ended up getting banned, but I might be wrong.
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#16This page reads normally on mobile, but on desktop it's eight columns wide, scrolls horizontally, with each column being 1/4th the screen width.
Turning on reader mode has it display the massive GDPR waiver / "partners list" instead of the actual article :)
Reader mode works for me in Firefox. What browser are you using?
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#18So, just to get an idea, i can buy 1million profiles including pictures for 130 Euros, which I should be able to match against stolen credit card lists (do those come with addresses?) and even old stolen passwords.
I mean, yikes.
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#19So, just to get an idea, i can buy 1million profiles including pictures for 130 Euros, which I should be able to match against stolen credit card lists (do those come with addresses?) and even old stolen passwords. I mean, yikes.
It's a gold mine for social engineering. Age, location, sexual orientation, relationship status, employment status, interests, aspirations, lots of information based on their Instagram feed about things like travel destinations, friends, parents, pets etc. I'm sure the conversations themselves include a lot of personal information that one wouldn't want floating around the web.
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#20This page reads normally on mobile, but on desktop it's eight columns wide, scrolls horizontally, with each column being 1/4th the screen width.
I'm having trouble determining what they discovered here.
1) They bought 1 million dating profiles
2) They traced it back to Match.com and Plenty of Fish
That's it? That's the news? Where's the meat? What am I missing?