The Swipebuster service offers Tinder user tracking services.

The popular dating service Tinder has an unofficial Swipebuster companion site that offers to track service users for a modest fee. For $ 5, you can find a person whose photo you met in the process of viewing questionnaires, or check if someone you know is using this service.

At the same time, the authors of Swipebuster act within the framework of laws and rules - they did not crack Tinder, but only used its API to access the database. True, although the Vanity Fair publication claims that the API and access to the Tinder database are publicly available, I could not find them. There is only unofficial documentation obtained by reverse engineering.

Tinder is a mobile application that partially uses Facebook contact information for dating online. Launched in 2012, it was one of the first applications using the swipe principle - moving a photo of a potential candidate to the side. In this case, for example, when moving the photo to the left, the user signals that he did not like the candidate, to the right - on the contrary. Today, the system processes more than a billion svaypov daily.
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One of the distinguishing features of the application is also the impossibility of any contact with a potential candidate until the two users have mutual sympathy - when both of them decide that they like each other's photos. In this regard, trying to establish contact with those who have not yet seen your photo, or rejected it, is quite difficult.



Users of the Tinder service, viewing candidate profiles, can see the photos, age, name and brief information that the candidate wished to leave himself. Swipebuster offers to find all candidates under the filter by name, age and approximate geographical location, and all you have to do is choose the one you want by photo.

Critics of the Tinder service make statements according to which the application makes a significant contribution to the decline of modern mores, reduces the importance of serious relationships, and turns acquaintances into a competition and search for quick, non-binding intrigues. Others stigmatize the service for the fact that it “helps” to organize adultery, simplifying the search for a couple. According to one of the polls , 30% of Tinder users are married - however, the owners of the service claim that the real number of such unfaithful spouses does not exceed 2% of users.

Our current data says that they are married - not 30%, as the preposterous GlobalWebIndex article indicated.

- Tinder (@Tinder) August 11, 2015

Although, whether the application is guilty of these troubles is still a big question. In the end, unlike recently hacked Ashley Madison , Tinder does not position itself as a service for treason.

The creator of Swipebuster claims that he designed the site not with malicious intent, but only to show how carelessly modern people relate to their private information and how much it accumulates in public databases. Since Tinder works with the location of the user and allows you to search for partners nearby, its coordinates also fall into the base of the program and become available to Swipebuster users.