The integrity of Tinder, the popular mobile app used for self esteem-boosting, drunken catfishing, and very occasionally, for hooking up, has been compromised. Though you likely suspected all along that the platform was plagued with fakes, spambots and various other ne’er-do-wells, a recent blog post by former Microsoft developer and Tinder troll Yuri de Souza has confirmed just how easy it is to mess with your hook up hopes and dreams.
Tinder allows you to swipe right on profiles you like, in hopes that you’ll get a few matches. Users quickly figured out that swiping right on every single profile increases the chances of getting a match, if you’re willing to just wing it and have low to no standards. In his post, entitled ‘Hacking Tinder For Fun And Profit‘, de Souza explains how he took things a step further, working some code magic to do away with swipes entirely, allowing users to like every single nearby person, and increasing the chances of a meaningless match significantly.
If you’re willing to wade through the morass of detailed instructions and creepily misogynistic anecdotes, you’ll be getting laid and/or resentfully masturbating to strangers’ profile pics in no time. If you’re looking for an actual, meaningful connection, you may just be shit outta luck.
