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2 stories tagged okcupid, newest first.

Screenshot of arstechnica.com: OkCupid gave 3M dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says

OkCupid gave 3M dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says (arstechnica.com)

434 points by whiteboardr 6 months ago | 89 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that the FTC says OkCupid shared 3 million user photos with a facial recognition firm, and that OkCupid and Match settled without a fine.

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Screenshot of nothinghuman.substack.com: The Tyranny of the Marginal User

The Tyranny of the Marginal User (nothinghuman.substack.com)

1311 points by ivee 3 years ago | 721 comments

A Substack essay by Ivan Vendrov arguing that consumer software gets worse over time because companies optimize for the least-engaged marginal user.

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#okcupid on Hacker News

OkCupid gave 3M dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says(arstechnica.com)

The Tyranny of the Marginal User(nothinghuman.substack.com)

OkCupid gave 3M dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says (arstechnica.com)

The Tyranny of the Marginal User (nothinghuman.substack.com)