When you hide your location, everyone else see you as "less than a mile away". But it actually feels like about as much privacy as you can reasonably expect from an app whose main feature is that it tells strangers approximately where you are.You aren’t actually sure why Tinder uses its odd, rounded square overlay.
You would much rather he had given you one of two matching ten dollar bills and stayed in the office. For normal, Euclidean distance calculations, this overlay would be a set of concentric circles.However, Tinder appears to use an overlay of concentric squares that start to develop some strange rounding on their corners as they get further away from the target.Amongst other things, this means that Tinder often returns distances that are a little bit wrong. Well, this guy discovered the girl he matched with on Tinder was less than a mile away and what he did next was very, very unique. You borrow Wilson’s phone for testing whilst he’s in the bathroom because you know he uses Tinder and you can see his unlock code from the finger grease on his screen.
If you can get them to match and chat for a while then they'll be a little more invested and not so likely to bail when they find out you live 60 miles away.
It means that Tinder will always return the same distance if a target is located anywhere within a given grid square. The circles sometimes come tantalizingly close to intersecting, but are more often unable to reach any useful consensus about where Wilson is. Tinder now only ever sends your phone distances that are pre-rounded, in miles, with zero decimal places of precision. You keep swiping until you match with each other, and then write a short Python script using But something is wrong. You briefly contemplate giving them jobs.Frustrated, you take a step back.
I'm talking about the Plus/Gold feature where you can hide your location/distance. You open Tinder on both your and Wilson’s phones. You could spoof a Tinder location update and ask Tinder how far away your target is. When you ask him where he’s going he makes a weird grimace that he probably thinks is a malevolent smile and tells you not to worry.
He could have already updated your company LinkedIn page to make you an “Advisor” or an “Associate” or “vice-CEO”. The Tinder app tracks its users’ locations in order to tell potential matches how far away they are from each other. When calculating the distance between an attacker and a target, it snaps the location of the target to the center of their current grid square. You tell your unpaid trial period staff to hold your calls and to not say anything to Wilson. Rather than take the usual route most guys take and just try to spit game through his phone, this guy went way outside the box and instead decided to see if there was a way for them to communicate via him going outside and just yelling. But it worked! There are several to choose from. As long as user locations are snapped to a grid, Tinder could continue to use the normal Euclidean distance with no loss of privacy.
Night falls, dinnertime passes, and you still haven’t re-located Wilson. By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. It then calculates and returns the approximate distance between the attacker Second, it calculates distances using what appears to be an entirely custom formula. Perhaps it’s simply that the new metric is faster to calculate, and despite what Gordon Moore promised us, computers aren’t free yet. Now the network messages sent from server to app contained only these pre-calculated distances, with no actual locations.