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The age as a proxy for attractiveness issue is better solved by matching algorithms that take age difference into account. I'd be surprised if they didn't do this already.

And tbh the whole attractiveness argument smells a lot like how black people were considered unattractive customers that would make it harder to sell to white customers in real estate transactions in 1950s America.

It's not unreasonable that marketing a fair platform would cost more than a discriminatory one, just as it's not unreasonable that e.g. mitigating pollution at a factory costs money.

Regulations should address such things to level the playing field of course, but shit companies trying to sneak in practices like this should be condemned.