I say this as a tech person, as someone who has spent a lot of time thinking about dating apps, and as someone who has used OkCupid numerous times over the last two decades:

Don't use OkCupid.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/okcupid-match-pay-no-fine-for-sharing-user-photos-with-facial-recognition-firm/

OkCupid gave 3 million dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says

OkCupid and Match settle with Trump FTC, don't have to pay any financial penalty.

Ars Technica
@twipped fuck, this is frustrating and awful. Can’t even fucking use a dating app if I don’t want to wind up in a facial recognition database?
@JoscelynTransient for all my anger at google, meta, et all, none burns as hot as my rage at the audacity of Match corp. They are a truly vile company
@twipped
I wanted to read this, but then a thing popped up, saying "we and our 228 partners" and now I'm convinced that this is not the right medium to publish criticism about selling people's data to any greedy-ass company who wants it.
@twipped @timixretroplays “There is no ethical online dating under surveillance capitalism”