As part of an April Fools Day hacking prank, singles that didn’t fancy James Arnott were told: “Sorry this person is too hot to dislike today”.
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Despite racking up 1,289 likes in just one day, he says he’s a tad disappointed he didn’t get more.
The 21-year-old, from East London, who has a partner, told The Sun: “I engineered a way to disable swiping left. Disable rejecting.
“It would come up with a funny pop-up saying ‘this person is too hot to reject’.”
The popup read: “Sorry this person is too hot to dislike today, please try again with someone else.”
James developed the Google Chrome extension LighterFuel which allows Tinder desktop users to see when potential matches created a profile.
He got the idea after discovering Tinder published when people created their accounts.
He said: “the goal was always to help people identify scammers because their are quite a few scammers on Tinder.
“It helps you out knowing how long someone has been on Tinder.
“It is really simple, it’s also got reverse image searching so you can identify whether or not profiles are fake.
“You just install the extension and then load up Tinder on your computer. A lot of people use it on a desktop.
“It’s proven to be pretty popular, it’s gained about 9,000 users which is pretty good.”
But on April Fools Day, James rolled out his ‘no dislike’ update as a prank.
He explained: “My profile was swiped on 2,608 times. I received 1,289 likes.
“It was a global profile.
“I had a way to show all users that got the April fools update to view my profile, so they would be able to swipe on it.
“It didn’t roll out to everyone, but quite a few people got it.
“It was a bit fewer than I was expecting.”
But users were not totally trapped.
Nice James did actually give them a get out of jail free option by pressing the left arrow on a keyboard.
“I didn’t trap them, I gave them a way out.”
A whopping 82 per cent of the people who liked James were men, while only 17 per cent were women.
James, who has a 2.1 in Computer Science from Royal Holloway Uni, admitted he doesn’t even like dating apps.
“I just thought it would be a funny thing to do?”
He added: “I haven’t had any negative reviews from it. I had 72 people who installed. It’s all been pretty good.”
James has made no money from the app, with any proceeds/ad revenue going to Ukraine relief charities.
He isn’t able to work out how much money has gone to Ukraine thanks to the app.
Major error men looking for love on Tinder are making that’s a big turn off for women revealed
MEN who brag about being football fans are more likely to be shown the red card on dating site Tinder, a poll found.
Researchers said just one in 25 female users like the game and are more likely to swipe right for guys who love travel.
Football came 28th in interests ranked by women, who instead prefer more leisurely ways to spend their time – such as reading a book.
This came despite more interest in women’s football and the success of England’s Lionesses.
Men also slash their chances of finding a non-sporty love by admitting passions for golf, cricket, rugby and boxing on the dating site.
But gym workouts were revealed to be a date-winning pastime popular with both men and women looking for love online.
A fitness workout was the third most popular pastime among both men and women, with 21 per cent and 14 per cent naming it respectively.
Fashion, wine and “self care” also appeared on the women’s list – but were entirely absent from the men’s, the Tinder study by CasinoZonder showed.
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