Platforms accused of encouraging compulsive use by gamifying users’ attention and romantic investment
  • SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de
    14·
    10 months ago

    Lawsuit against Tinder, Hinge and Match

    It’s all the same company: Match Group, mtch.com [sic]

    Match Group is an American internet and technology company headquartered in Dallas, Texas.[1] It owns and operates the largest global portfolio of popular online dating services including Tinder, Match.com, Meetic, OkCupid, Hinge, Plenty of Fish, OurTime, and other dating global brands.[2] The company was owned by IAC until July 2020 when Match Group was spun off as a separate, public company. As of 2019, the company had 9.3 million subscribers, of which 4.6 million were in North America.[3] Japan is the company’s second largest market, after the United States.[4]

  • carbonari_sandwich@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    10 months ago

    The incentives are just in the wrong place for a dating app. If you find a healthy relationship, you stop using them.