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Re:Tinder will introduce voluntary ID verification to reduce... by notyourday on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @01:26PM (#28212456)
> And if so, how has Tinder not fixed that already?! It's not a particularly hard problem to kill off all but the most determined bots. Or are they not motivated to do so due to it inflating user numbers?

Most of bots pay Tinder, which is how they get the "unlimited likes", ability to change location and ability to pull those that "liked" them. Cleaning up bots will wipe out a significant portion of tinder revenue.

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Re:Tinder will introduce voluntary ID verification to reduce... by bob33212 on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @02:07PM (#28212977)
Some percentage of the users may be OK with not knowing if there are bots. Get a few attractive "people" to match with you, get a self esteem boost and move on with your day. And there is the lottery element. What if this one isn't a bot and actually picked me out of the thousands of other options.
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Re:Tinder will introduce voluntary ID verification to reduce... by notyourday on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @02:39PM (#28213306)
This does not answer why Tinder does not get rid of bots. Bots running on paid accounts does.
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Re:Tinder will introduce voluntary ID verification to reduce... by bob33212 on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @04:44PM (#28214624)
Yes it does, it increases daily usage
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Re:Tinder will introduce voluntary ID verification to reduce... by notyourday on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @05:40PM (#28215193)
Tinder is money printing machine via subscriptions. It does not give a two cents about daily usage metrics popular among VC supported or advertiser centric companies that don't have a product its users want to pay for.
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Re:Tinder will introduce voluntary ID verification to reduce... by bob33212 on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @07:17PM (#28215888)
They care about those metrics because they know the conversion rate on those users.
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