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I sometimes ponder... they won't allow my sex chat app in the store - yet I find many apps are rated mature over 17 or something.. and a few of the top 20 searc

I sometimes ponder... they won't allow my sex chat app in the store - yet I find many apps are rated mature over 17 or something.. and a few of the top 20 search results for 'sex chat' I believe have an app in the store.. then you see this poly site kicked.. and I wonder if tinder and grindr are handing over a large enough chunk of change where the sex rules do not apply. I mean a sex chat app is mostly about chatting when little chance of a real world meet up. However tinder and grinder are basically 'let's have real world sex tonight' apps right? Someone from big G please tell me how to get an app in the store where people can talk about sex. Need a funny name? Need to be able to hand over a ton of money and location data? I sometimes jest that it's a kind of conspiracy. Especially if being in the store is a ranking signal for any search results. Of course I don't know, I just ponder these things. I've made a few bookmarks and screenshots with some research a while back, but no time to share today. Tried to see if it's back in - but from their site that is linked from vice, the link to the play store shows: The site at https://twitter.com/hashtagopen/status/1369022572671733769?s=20 https://twitter.com/hashtagopen/status/1369022572671733769?s... has experienced a network protocol violation that cannot be repaired. Is twitter going further down the block / ban route now? I also ponder if twitter really does ban everyone that has ever talked about violence how many others will be booted in the weeks ahead. Then where will people go to vote up their favorite songs. Just some occasional pondering. edited to add some ' ' - and fix a mispelled word.

willio58 6y ago
As someone who has used tinder in the past, no it’s not exactly what you describe it as. Sure, you might be able to find immediate sex if you are lucky and attractive, but it’s not so easy. Grindr, from what I’ve heard from my gay friends who use it, is a lot more casual. Most profiles I came across on tinder specifically mentioned that they were not on it for a short term thing.
- stevenicr 6y ago
  Thanks for the viewpoint on this. My understanding of the app comes from several guy friends and many girl-friends that seem to use the app for finding sex tonight. Also running around as a part time lyft driver for a year or more, in a city that has rampant tourism, I have been quite amazed at how many people were meeting up with or leaving hotels/airbnbs with stories of just got in town and got on tinder and ... with some person from some other random state with same kind of story. Even though we are bachelorette capital (unofficial) of the country, I have yet to hear about an upcoming wedding that started with a meetup via tinder. I understand I am a small data point in millions, so this proves nothing - but my limited understanding. Maybe my add in point would be that it very much depends on where you are as to the expectations of said app usage. And now that I think about this along with your statement and some of the other dating info I have learned from reading HN over the years.. perhaps time of day and location are very important factors. Certainly tinder usage in a town of 500 is different that the options in a city 3 million. I am now considering that tinder usage at 1am leads to a different type of meetup than say the desires of someone getting on there at 6pm as well. I'd love to see some stats from them like okcupid use to share. What ever the percentage, I think we can assume that most people who meet up via tinder probably have sex before wasting too much - as say compared to a dating app like Devout-Christian-Family-Singles or such.. It's been a fairly shared knowledge I think in these parts anyhow, that if you want a relationship go for something like match dot com.. if you are in anything alternative dating wise okcupid, willing accept a percentage of dates will be with seriously crazy people; plentyoffish, really want to meet up tonight and see what happens, Tinder / grindr.. So I think my questioning of these policies is still fair, we don't have a list of explicit lines that google gives app/site makers. We know these things are being used for 'immoral' things - fornication, frequently, likely by the millions.. and it would be easy for google and match group to know when they are illegal as well (adultery) - so it's not a legal or moral thing they are drawing lines with. It's got to be the money (?) or a small group of googlers that are choosing to be a level or prude in some places and level of give the finger to the church and the gov in others or something. I remember some years ago when cell phone companies had actual lines drawn on a woman's butt showing how small a bikini could be for premium sms messages - when a tiny bikini was too small or not to not violate - at least those lines were drawn and shared with other for a level playing field. These days it feels like the big money incumbents have little to fear from google and it's easy for smaller niche apps / groups of people to be shunned and told to open a browser instead. Which is fine, just some things I think about once in a while.
g33k_kidd 6y ago
Not to mention Reddit literally has dead people some places, also lots of sex talk, so how are they exempt from being removed? People like sex, it's a fact, so why are they trying so hard to enforce stuff like this? Is it really that hard to have some type of age verification for NSFW apps?
varispeed 6y ago
It's all about money and connections. I remember one of the clients app got banned from a known payment processor and then few months later a similar app was processing payments with that company just fine but it turns out it was created by someone knowing that payment company owners.

willio58 6y ago

As someone who has used tinder in the past, no it’s not exactly what you describe it as. Sure, you might be able to find immediate sex if you are lucky and attractive, but it’s not so easy. Grindr, from what I’ve heard from my gay friends who use it, is a lot more casual. Most profiles I came across on tinder specifically mentioned that they were not on it for a short term thing.

stevenicr 6y ago
Thanks for the viewpoint on this. My understanding of the app comes from several guy friends and many girl-friends that seem to use the app for finding sex tonight. Also running around as a part time lyft driver for a year or more, in a city that has rampant tourism, I have been quite amazed at how many people were meeting up with or leaving hotels/airbnbs with stories of just got in town and got on tinder and ... with some person from some other random state with same kind of story. Even though we are bachelorette capital (unofficial) of the country, I have yet to hear about an upcoming wedding that started with a meetup via tinder. I understand I am a small data point in millions, so this proves nothing - but my limited understanding. Maybe my add in point would be that it very much depends on where you are as to the expectations of said app usage. And now that I think about this along with your statement and some of the other dating info I have learned from reading HN over the years.. perhaps time of day and location are very important factors. Certainly tinder usage in a town of 500 is different that the options in a city 3 million. I am now considering that tinder usage at 1am leads to a different type of meetup than say the desires of someone getting on there at 6pm as well. I'd love to see some stats from them like okcupid use to share. What ever the percentage, I think we can assume that most people who meet up via tinder probably have sex before wasting too much - as say compared to a dating app like Devout-Christian-Family-Singles or such.. It's been a fairly shared knowledge I think in these parts anyhow, that if you want a relationship go for something like match dot com.. if you are in anything alternative dating wise okcupid, willing accept a percentage of dates will be with seriously crazy people; plentyoffish, really want to meet up tonight and see what happens, Tinder / grindr.. So I think my questioning of these policies is still fair, we don't have a list of explicit lines that google gives app/site makers. We know these things are being used for 'immoral' things - fornication, frequently, likely by the millions.. and it would be easy for google and match group to know when they are illegal as well (adultery) - so it's not a legal or moral thing they are drawing lines with. It's got to be the money (?) or a small group of googlers that are choosing to be a level or prude in some places and level of give the finger to the church and the gov in others or something. I remember some years ago when cell phone companies had actual lines drawn on a woman's butt showing how small a bikini could be for premium sms messages - when a tiny bikini was too small or not to not violate - at least those lines were drawn and shared with other for a level playing field. These days it feels like the big money incumbents have little to fear from google and it's easy for smaller niche apps / groups of people to be shunned and told to open a browser instead. Which is fine, just some things I think about once in a while.

g33k_kidd 6y ago

Not to mention Reddit literally has dead people some places, also lots of sex talk, so how are they exempt from being removed? People like sex, it's a fact, so why are they trying so hard to enforce stuff like this? Is it really that hard to have some type of age verification for NSFW apps?

varispeed 6y ago

It's all about money and connections. I remember one of the clients app got banned from a known payment processor and then few months later a similar app was processing payments with that company just fine but it turns out it was created by someone knowing that payment company owners.