[concertina226]

Popular dating app Tinder has announced it will remove any social-media handles listed in public-user profile bios from today, in a bid to crack down on people using the service to advertise sex work, according to the Evening Standard.

While online safety is an ever-present concern, it seems Tinder is most concerned about users trying to advertise businesses or make money in illicit ways.

The dating app’s updated community guidelines go further. A new paragraph spells out exactly what they mean by this: “Tinder isn’t the place for any sort of sex work, escort services, or compensated relationships. So, no — don’t use Tinder to find your sugarmamma.”

[jfengel]

Are they also gonna ban link shorteners? If not, it's gonna take zero seconds for people to start using that workaround.

[smt88]

I haven't seen many overt ads for sex work other than OnlyFans. Tinder is absolutely jam-packed with bots funneling people to OnlyFans accounts. Tinder might have the worst spam filtering of any social network.