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Has anyone ever had success on an app like Hinge, then deleted it only to see a large drop in your success rate when nothing else changed about your profile?

If so, it could be due to things like this:

https://tech.okcupid.com/evaluating-perceptual-image-hashes-...

Match Group owns OkCupid, Hinge, Tinder and so on.. so wouldn’t be surprising if they all used the same or similar algorithms for spam prevention and noob boost abuse.

They probably also collect other data like your phone number, deviceID, etc.

This is bad because if you ever delete your profile and remake it then your internal ranking could plummet due to these aggressive spam filters.

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