The company behind more than a dozen dating apps, Match Group, has known for years about the abusive users on its platforms, but chooses to leave millions of people in the dark
Very disappointing that Match Group, being effectively a monopoly, doesn’t give us the one benefit we would get from it being a monopoly: industry-wide bans.
Normally, you’d need a whole bunch of companies to agree on a universal standard for communicating bans between each other and agreements to stick to it (similar to standards like USB) but here they could just do it. They even collect the information, they just don’t act on it.
I see reports that they actually do industry-wide bans so if you’re banned on one app they run, you’re banned on all the others. Ban evaders often also have to get new phones and use brand new pictures for those profiles if they want to get back on, say, Tinder. Some of the information in the article about how easy it is to evade a ban here seems pretty outdated if not outright deceptive.
Very disappointing that Match Group, being effectively a monopoly, doesn’t give us the one benefit we would get from it being a monopoly: industry-wide bans.
Normally, you’d need a whole bunch of companies to agree on a universal standard for communicating bans between each other and agreements to stick to it (similar to standards like USB) but here they could just do it. They even collect the information, they just don’t act on it.
I see reports that they actually do industry-wide bans so if you’re banned on one app they run, you’re banned on all the others. Ban evaders often also have to get new phones and use brand new pictures for those profiles if they want to get back on, say, Tinder. Some of the information in the article about how easy it is to evade a ban here seems pretty outdated if not outright deceptive.