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If Badoo reads HN: it would be great if you had "The technology of filtering fake accounts". Simply running a Google Image search on uploaded pictures would rul
by thu 13y ago
If Badoo reads HN: it would be great if you had "The technology of filtering fake accounts". Simply running a Google Image search on uploaded pictures would rule out a lot of fake accounts.
- mkevac 13y agoI suppose they have a awful lot of images. Google would not be happy.
- thu 13y agoMaybe. Although it was mostly an example, I guess quite a few users do the search themselves, possibly for the same pictures over and over again. Some accounts also use exactly the same pictures; I guess that recognizing those cases without resorting to a third party solution would be possible too.
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- dictum 13y agoTinEye would be happy to service them, I think. http://services.tineye.com http://services.tineye.com
- spreadsheetguru 13y agodude, the entire business model of dating sites is predicated on fake profiles. there would be no badoo otherwise
- Xophmeister 13y agoI hear about this first-hand from a Badoo support 'insider': Besides the occasional obscenity, which one might expect from such a site, the constant fake profiles used by scammers -- which are always almost exactly the same -- is a real problem. I understand that naively blocking by IP, or something else attempting to associate rogue users uniquely, is never going to work, but how about some heuristic approach? Or -- even easier -- do it like StackOverflow: only allow certain privileges after the user has garnered an appropriate degree of trust.