Probably. You should probably also take a long hard look at yourself and think about what you’ve done. /s
Serious answer:
No, of course not. I just wondered whether there was more to it than it appeared. Apparently not, fair enough.
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I thought it was interesting to specify some of the info that various web sites know about their users, in particular the data that can be derived from positional information, but apparently it was not. Sorry for that.
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When was this? If I google “tinder without facebook” today, I get a bunch of links that claim to tell you how, but actually just tell you to use your facebook login. Possibly Tinder allowed it in the past, but I am guessing no one used it, and they didn’t have a way to “monetize” the users who did, so they stopped.
As a facebook refusenik, I’ve noticed a strong trend towards seeing facebook as the way to log into stuff. Most sites still have a native login option, but you increasingly have to read the fine print to find it, and I predict that some sites will stop providing the option altogether. Kinja is halfway there already.
This is exactly why I decided to spend my bachelor years in an era before dating apps and social media were a thing.
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It was just a couple months ago actually, I was struggling to log in through FB while driving through Montana during late July. Tapped a couple wrong buttons and accidentally created an account through my email. I may have misinterpreted its setup and it very well may have still connected to my Facebook without me realizing it had, but that’s what happened.
Since when does uploading a couple pictures of yourself in search of a connection match the definition of exhibitionism?
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Doesn’t everybody, on the internet?
Doesn’t everybody what? Get accused of blaming victims? Never once here.
thought you might want advice.
Doesn’t everybody?
It really wasn’t clear, as many people seem to want to be called victim blamers and pursue the label with literal abandon. Others less so, some not at all.
I think it’s a good reminder of what using these sites / their software entails, and it’s becoming harder and harder to avoid them.
'tis why I keep “Location Services” off most of the time.
(It’s bad enough that a coarse tracking of virtually every single citizen of a developed country is now possible through the cellphone operator’s logs.)
Your comment is so wrong on so many levels.
‘Modern morals’?
WTF? What does that even mean? Do you think there are ancient morals (girls forced to marry an old git as soon as they get their first period [this is where the christian moral of 'no sex before marriage ACTUALLY stems from]) or maybe old morals (girls, marry who your parents tell you to, let him be your master in every way, even if he beats you [which is fine, btw … you probably deserved it]) which are better? Do you think these things are set in stone? Do you think of Tinder as a hookup app like Grinder?
It ain’t anymore. To my regret, Tinder is now just another dating app with women looking to meet and men looking to meet fuckbuddies and realising that ain’t exactly how it is anymore.
And even then … so what? Who cares about which moral code is followed in this case? What is the relevance? In interpersonal relationships between consenting adults, who are you to judge what is moral? Or to classify morals into modern or any other form? Shit, ISIS’s ‘modern morals’ are that women are chattel, just like ancient christian morals.
And then you speak of ‘modern morals about data security’.
First of all, the data is actually quite secure. This was a self info request, not hacked info. So you’re likely talking about data retention and data gathering. Which most people who think about it (and there are not a lot, and it is something so new any moral or legal thought per definition HAS to be ‘modern’) think is a bad thing as is inherently prone to abuse. The only people who think it is a good thing are those who want to profit off it. And that too is a modern thing … this amount/degree of data has never before been available.
I dislike you for your disgustingly incorrect and wrong use of words. You disgust me for the judgement (bad, at that!) you show in two simple sentences.
You’re the kind of person who says ‘if you don’t like your ISP, get a new one’, disregarding there are no other choices. Or ‘I think X is bad so no-one should do it’ even if it is something which does not hurt anyone and does not affect you.
You’re like a fat person demanding that donuts be banned whilst stuffing your face with them.
Perhaps its a simple comment and you’ve added ‘levels’ to it, to denegrate it?
Privacy isn’t seen as a modern moral issue by many, whom also use Tinder.
FANTASTIC STRAWMAN ARGUMENT YOU HAVE MADE THERE.
Much like the Hobbit (movies) though, too much fiction, no idea how you got there from the source material.
Don’t mistake that as an inquiry into your theory, it is not one.
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