[Discussion] Shadow bans

[imongithub123]

Wondering if this is the case. If I press the green heart on 10 of my swipes, won't Tinder think I'm a bot or something? Feel free to delete/move this, not an issue, just a question

[tajnymag]

Well, to be completely frank, of course it is possible. At least technically.

The thing is, there are thousands of stories about Tinder shadow banning for so many reasons, that this one probably doesn't matter. As long as Tinder doesn't open up about their server-side security logic, everything is a pure speculation.

[iCejpg]

Well I think i got shadowban or something after this new deblur, usually I have a lot of likes. And even all of them disappear and top picks are blank.
After making new account I'm not getting any likes etc. And I have Tinder for some years never had issue or break rules, my guess is thats because script hmm

[tajnymag]

Well I think i got shadowban or something after this new deblur, usually I have a lot of likes. And even all of them disappear and top picks are blank. After making new account I'm not getting any likes etc. And I have Tinder for some years never had issue or break rules, my guess is thats because script hmm

Does removing the script make your likes reappear on the old account?

[iCejpg]

Well I think i got shadowban or something after this new deblur, usually I have a lot of likes. And even all of them disappear and top picks are blank. After making new account I'm not getting any likes etc. And I have Tinder for some years never had issue or break rules, my guess is thats because script hmm

Does removing the script make your likes reappear on the old account?

I deleted account and tried again, Im sure its shadowban at this moment. I will try friend phone and new mail and all to check

[AntonStoeckl]

I've matched quite some recently, messaged some, and blocked the other ones (so that they disappear from the likes).
Got some new likes today, so it does not seem you are not easily shadow banned if you don't overdo it.
I think I have matched around 15 in one day. It's never wrong to only match one or two in a batch, then message them even if you are not interested (ideally only do that with profiles that look like scammers, because it's not nice to do that with real people) and then wait a bit until you unmatch of block them. Rinse and repeat.

[zMantleS]

Can confirm I was shadow banned from using the deblur like function twice. Will try make a new account

[tajnymag]

Tinder might be shadow banning even just for multiple accounts on the same device/with the same name. Once you start going of the main path, tinder is a really murky platform

[tajnymag]

⚠️UPDATE⚠️

The project started as a simple wrapper around a javascript function posted on Reddit. I gained way more traction than I anticipated and I couldn't keep up as well and fast as I should have.
What didn't help, was Tinder patching the exploited bug and later changing both API and frontend's identifiers. With me not on Tinder anymore, I am not able to test possible changes and/or find new exploits.

I am accepting any PRs I get and will do so until the project is archived. If you, the reader, are willing to take over the project, please, let me know.

If something isn't working, sometimes there's newer version available on the develop branch. To try it, click this link.
Once there's a newer stable version, your userscript extension should update you automatically to it.