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How i got BANNED on every Dating App [Suq9LFHJ0Hk]
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Overview
Daniel received permanent bans across dating apps including Tinder, Hinge, and Bumble after sending hostile messages and uploading an explicit photograph as his profile picture, attributing the cross-platform bans to Match Group's market monopoly and shared ban databases.
Relying on dating apps due to social anxiety and lacking confidence, Daniel attempted to evade the bans using alternate devices, virtual numbers, ProtonMail accounts, concealed-face profiles, and pixel-altering cloaking software.
Although Daniel went on dates and met his current girlfriend while using accounts with cloaked images, the accounts were eventually banned again.
Themes
Dating application bans across Tinder, Hinge, and Bumble following violations.
Methods and technical requirements researched and tested to circumvent platform bans.
Pixel alteration software designed to trick facial recognition algorithms while preserving image appearance for humans.
Criticism of Match Group's lifetime bans, shared databases, and market monopoly.
Developments
Daniel uploaded an explicit picture of his genitals as his Tinder profile picture and messaged his match list.
Tinder permanently banned Daniel's account within an hour of the image upload, and Daniel found himself concurrently banned on Hinge and Bumble.
Daniel created dating app accounts with his face concealed, resulting in few matches.
Daniel processed photos through cloaking software and uploaded them to create new Tinder, Hinge, and Bumble accounts.
Daniel met his current girlfriend while using the cloaked accounts.
Daniel was eventually banned again across the dating apps.
Uncertainties & gaps
Whether Tinder and Bumble maintain an active agreement to cross-share ban lists, despite Bumble having separate ownership outside Match Group.
Whether performing a factory reset on a device successfully purges its identification from Tinder's database.
Whether facial recognition technology is the specific mechanism triggering the immediate removal of Daniel's newly created profiles.
The precise name of the cloaking software, tentatively recalled as something like Guy Fawkes Cloaking.
The exact duration the cloaked accounts remained active, estimated at at least a month or nearly two months.