{"id":346364,"date":"2025-08-15T11:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T11:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/346364\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T11:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T11:07:13","slug":"ghosting-breadcrumbing-one-night-stands-are-we-done-with-dating-apps-podcast-dating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/346364\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghosting, breadcrumbing, one-night stands: are we done with dating apps? &#8211; podcast | Dating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">More than a million people in the UK left dating apps last year \u2013 a problem so severe, explains the Guardian matchmaker <strong>Kitty Drake<\/strong>, that the apps are in \u201cfinancial crisis\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">She talks to <strong>Helen Pidd <\/strong>about why so many are fed up of swiping left and right: done with feeling so disposable, inauthentic profiles and the bad behaviour the apps encourage, from ghosting to breadcrumbing to one-night stands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">They also discuss a class-action suit against Match group \u2013 the owner of apps such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/tinder\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tinder<\/a>, Hinge and OkCupid \u2013 that has one central allegation at its heart: that it is in the financial interest of the apps not to allow its users find love, but to keep them constantly searching for the next date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Even if we leave the apps, though, have they left an indelible mark on our dating habits?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dating apps on a phone screen\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4203.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"356.06352605281944\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"dcr-evn1e9\"\/> Illustration: Koshiro K\/Alamy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than a million people in the UK left dating apps last year \u2013 a problem so severe,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-346364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115032467048360252","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}