Swiping right into addiction: Class action suit claims Tinder, Hinge designed to hook users

A lawsuit filed in San Francisco on Valentine’s Day asserts that dating apps Tinder ... Class action suit claims Tinder, Hinge designed to hook users appeared first on Local News Matters. Read More

The Swipe Pandemic: Are dating apps like Hinge, Bumble and Tinder pushing us to addiction?

"I have been on these dating apps for almost two years now. I don't get as many matches as I want, but I think it's the case with every guy on these dating apps," says Sidharth Agarwal* (name changed ... Read More

Tinder's parent company is suing Google over in-app billing

Match Group owns numerous popular dating apps and websites, including Hinge, OkCupid, Tinder, and PlentyOfFish ... Thus, if developers want to reach enough users for their Android app to be ... Read More

How dating apps are changing in the wake of swiping fatigue and new startups emerging

Dating apps are in for a shake-up. Many users are tired of swiping, dating app giants like Match Group (which owns Tinder and Hinge) face headwinds, and new startups are launching left and right. Read More

Dating app cover-up: How Tinder, Hinge, and their corporate owner keep rape under wraps

The Markup and The Dating Apps Reporting Project spotlights Match Group, the company behind more than a dozen dating apps, and its troubling history with abusive users like Stephen Matthews. Read More

Don't let your iPhone dating apps get in the way of real romantic connection | Opinion

Is it possible to find true love on an app ... like Hinge, Bumble or Tinder. But as dating apps have exploded in popularity and using them is no longer stigmatized as it once was, their users ... Read More

What happens on dating apps ahead of Valentine's Day?

The CBS News Data Team asked the most popular dating apps what their dating data show. Dating apps such as Hinge ... suggesting users got more personal ahead of the holiday. Tinder's ubiquitous ... Read More

Tinder, Bumble, and Hinge have turned into a ‘wasteland’ for Gen Z and millennials – and now many are breaking up with dating apps for good

The dating app faced major backlash ... on TikTok that has to do with Hinge’s paid membership tiers and other paid components of the app. Hinge users can pay for “roses” in order to unlock ... Read More

Young people are moving away from dating apps like Tinder, Hinge, Bumble; What are they choosing instead?

While the membership of some dating apps appears to be in decline ... BBC cited another report saying Tinder lost 5,94,000 users, while Hinge dropped by 1,31,000, Bumble by 368,000, and Grindr ... Read More