The category we created. In a consent-based dating app, both people must pass each other’s filters before either can see the other.
Ten articles on what it is, why it matters, and how it works. Read them in order or jump to whatever caught your eye.
Consent-based dating is a new category of dating where both people must pass each other's filters before either can see the other. Here's ho...
Read article →The difference between consent-based dating and apps like Tinder, Bumble, and Hinge is not features. It is architecture. Here is what change...
Read article →Consent is the missing piece in 50 years of dating technology. Here is the timeline of how we got here and why it took until 2026 to build a...
Read article →Vilters are visibility filters that control who can see you on a dating app. No other app has them. Here is how they work, why they matter,...
Read article →Silters are search filters that control who you see on a dating app. Every app has them. Most do them badly. Here is how Silters work on the...
Read article →Tinder and Hinge use mutual match to claim they have consent-based architecture. They do not. Here is the structural difference between mutu...
Read article →Tinder owns a patent on swipe-based mutual matching. ViSi is a different architecture. Here is the plain-English explanation of why consent-...
Read article →The rights every dating-app user should have, and which existing apps violate. This is the framework that consent-based dating is built to p...
Read article →A common objection to consent-based dating is that it is just filtering with extra steps. This article explains why bidirectional pre-displa...
Read article →Why pre-display consent is the ethical baseline for dating apps. The argument from autonomy, the argument from harm reduction, and the respo...
Read article →Find out exactly what you will not put up with.
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