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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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