To save everyone a click, here is the entire text behind the link:<p>They say all's fair in love and war, but those that have used Tinder will probably disagree. And that includes Allan Candelore, a man suing the dating app over the pricing of its premium service, Tinder Plus. Candelore and his lawyers argue that charging $9.99 a month to users under 30, and $19.99 a month to those over 30, is age discrimination, and violates two California laws: the Unruh Civil Rights Act and the Unfair Competition Law.<p>Tinder co-founder Sean Rad said, "Our intent is to provide a discount for our younger users", and while a lower court agreed with him, a California appeals court reversed the decision in a lengthy statement that suggested "some older consumers will be 'more budget constrained' and less willing to pay". Then, in a "how do you do, fellow kids?" move, the court concluded its opinion on the previous ruling with "Accordingly, we swipe left, and reverse". It's not yet clear how this judgement will affect pricing in the future -- we've reached out to Tinder for comment.
In Norway they also use price discrimination, but not necessarily on age.<p>I have to pay double compared to my friend, even though we're the same age.<p>This is likely illegal, Tinder support never respond to me when I ask why I pay a different price. I'm considering to launch a complaint with the consumer ombudsman when I get the time.
> Our intent was to provide a discount for younger users.<p>Let me get this completely straight. Netflix can deliver unlimited views of thousands of tv shows and movies for $10/mo. Spotify lets you stream 30 million songs. Amazon can get physical packages to your doorstep in two days. Google can spin up a server in a data center for you.<p>But Tinder requires $20/mo. It must be cripplingly expensive to store all of those photos and biographical text fields. I can't even imagine the size of the data they store, it must be <i>terabytes</i>. And the engineering behind <i>swiping</i>?
Reading the headline, I thought for a second that they were charging higher user fees to fat people...<p>[Disclosure: I'm not a Tinder user, but fat]