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Otter@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

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

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Otter@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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Data-Hungry Dating Apps Are Worse Than Ever for Your Privacy
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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.
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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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      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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      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

    • recursive_recursion [they/them]@programming.dev
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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

      ETA: Apparently there are a few: https://github.com/topics/dating-app?l=dart

    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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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.

      • Dremor@lemmy.world
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        Will do, but don’t expect anything for at least a few month. 😆

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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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          They should try men

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            Yuck with the penises and all that? How the hell you supposed to fuck a penis anyway? What’re you supposed to do, dock em or something? I ain’t going near no gross dick. I mean sure, if she looked hot and I went to pull up her skirt after I had a few drinks in the bar and suddenly there was a dick… Well I don’t need to look at that when I’m tapping that ass from behind. It’s not like I’m gay or anything though. Sheesh. Weirdos.

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          Easy fix: The user base should be gay dudes

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            do 'em boys even need apps tho, seems like thats like one group of people who aint struggling to find true love haha

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      If you need machine learning to match people, send me a message lol

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      Duolicious is one. Its user base is mostly 4channers though.

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