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I learned recently that if someone forwards you the email that OKC sends them alerting them to a new message and you click on it you gain passwordless access to their account. I contacted OKC about this but they said that it was not an issue.
This isn't ideal, but why would anyone forward this kind of email?
They might be security wise rather weak, but their statistics blog is a brutal-beautiful view into what humans search for dating. https://theblog.okcupid.com/tagged/data
Famously, the article "Why You Should Never Pay For Online Dating" got deleted during the acquisition.
[1] Mirror: https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/okcupid/whyyoushouldne...
They might be security wise rather weak, but their statistics blog is a brutal-beautiful view into what humans search for dating. https://theblog.okcupid.com/tagged/data
What people say they sort on: personality, values, morals, political views, friendships, etc. What people sort on when they don't think they're being observed: genes
The thing is, by just scrolling through the feed/list of people to swipe on, you don't get to see much personality, mostly looks. To get to personality, you gotta talk to the person.
So when you swipe, you filter mostly by looks. And once you match and start talking, that's when you filter by personality.
Yes, one can say that you can get personality from their bio/profile, but that's such a non-consistent metric with tons of noise and misleading data (cliched/copypasted bio, nothing standing out, outdated bio, etc.). You need to have a conversation with a person to get a gauge of their real personality (of course, exceptions apply; if you see a profile/bio claiming that vaccines give kids autism and that the only valid covid treatment is essential oils, you kinda already have an idea who you are dealing with).
And out of all those people you spend a lot of time intensely reading thru profiles of before swiping, most of them won't even match with you. So imo, it makes sense to initially swipe based purely on looks and a 5-10 second glance at the profile, and then try to gauge their personality only after you match.
Initially I tried on the most recent FF, and about half the images were not loading. Refreshed the page, no images were loading after that at all.
Then I tried on the most recent Chrome, images were not loading at all either.
If someone has a workaround, please let me know. I have confirmed that adblocker and such were all disabled.
Upon trying to access the images directly, I got this 403 error:
> Your client does not have permission to get URL /u/0/d/ from this server. (Client IP address: )
> Rate-limit exceeded. That’s all we know.
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I learned recently that if someone forwards you the email that OKC sends them alerting them to a new message and you click on it you gain passwordless access to their account. I contacted OKC about this but they said that it was not an issue.
Lots of sites do this, it’s a feature for the majority of users who prefer convenience over security.
Anecdote: OkCupid is the only website or app where I've had an account hijacked. I got it back with a password reset, but the profile and pics were filled with bogus content.
Is it just me, or the images on the post are not loading? Initially I tried on the most recent FF, and about half the images were not loading. Refreshed the page, no images were loading after that at all. Then I tried on the most recent Chrome, images were not loading at all either. If someone has a workaround, please let me know. I have confirmed that adblocker and such were all disabled. Upon trying to access the i…
They might be security wise rather weak, but their statistics blog is a brutal-beautiful view into what humans search for dating. https://theblog.okcupid.com/tagged/data
The official blog is the cleaned-up version, they removed the most interesting articles when they sold out to match.com Famously, the article "Why You Should Never Pay For Online Dating" got deleted during the acquisition. [1] Mirror: https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/okcupid/whyyoushouldne...
If a dating site makes you pay to send messages, then they have an incentive to make you send messages to inactive accounts rather than active accounts, since people with inactive accounts have to pay in order to reply.
They might be security wise rather weak, but their statistics blog is a brutal-beautiful view into what humans search for dating. https://theblog.okcupid.com/tagged/data
What people say they sort on: personality, values, morals, political views, friendships, etc. What people sort on when they don't think they're being observed: genes