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Popular dating app Tinder has announced it will remove any social-media handles listed in public-user profile bios from today, in a bid to crack down on people using the service to advertise sex work, according to the Evening Standard.

While online safety is an ever-present concern, it seems Tinder is most concerned about users trying to advertise businesses or make money in illicit ways.

The dating app’s updated community guidelines go further. A new paragraph spells out exactly what they mean by this: “Tinder isn’t the place for any sort of sex work, escort services, or compensated relationships. So, no — don’t use Tinder to find your sugarmamma.”

I haven't seen many overt ads for sex work other than OnlyFans. Tinder is absolutely jam-packed with bots funneling people to OnlyFans accounts. Tinder might have the worst spam filtering of any social network.
Are they also gonna ban link shorteners? If not, it's gonna take zero seconds for people to start using that workaround.