/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>21560948

That isn't quite how it works though. Being able to advertise your product exclusively to people with positive net worth and credit cards, for instance, is worth a shit ton. Advertisers use all that extra data to predict and derive information.

Why do you think Plenty of Fish is still around? Sign up for an account there, notice how you are asked your income, personal habits, lifestyle etc.

Some of that shit matters to members of the opposite sex looking for a date, ALL of it is data worth $$$ to the people paying for ads on that site, ALL of it is used to target you with ads.

PoF has incredible data, and their ads make people who buy them fucking bank, consistently, so it will hang on and never die, no matter how successful Tinder gets, because Tinder doesn't dig in and get the fucking goods like PoF.