Unlike most appointments apps, which charge monthly or annual commissions for their paid levels, there is only a one -off payment of € 9 to register to guarantee users unlimited correspondences; A free option limits five -games users. Depoorter says that he does not want to exploit users by paying them on a recurring basis. When I suggest that that type of remuneration model is mostly unheard of today, it rejects. “I am an artist, I like to do things differently.”
The first reviews and reactions were mixed. “Super Strange”, a developer of app noted On X.
“This is the unbridled idea,” said another user Product hunting. “I love audacity.”
“It’s nice to see the focus on privacy from the beginning given how sensitive some of these data can be”, has published a programmer on Bluesky.
The greatest concern for users, just like that, is around the privacy and users’ security and given the amount of personal data that the deposit is asking people to pay, even these problems are in mind. The site scrutinizes up to 5,000 searches for recent browsers or goes back as regards the chronology of research, which could be several years, but never exceeds the maximum number of voices. (Navigation of data from the sessions of incognito mode cannot be loaded). Depoorter uses Firebase, the Google Open Source tool for the development of artificial intelligence apps, to archive and manage data.
“It is not exposed to the internet.” Depoorter says of the elaboration of the AI, which according to him takes place locally. “I don’t want to exhibit any history of the browser to another company.”
They have already been there Complaints of the late e -mail verification and the site that does not allow users to delete their profile; Depoorter claims to have solved these problems. At the moment the browser appointments does not allow the loading of photos, but Depoorter is working to change it and says that it involves implementing more features in the coming months, including an app for a simpler communication between connections and a recommendation feature that suggests possible positions of the first date.
The idea originally arrived in Depoorter in 2016 in V2, an experimental art and technology center in Rotterdam. He hosted a seminar that explored unique connections among the participants who were familiar with his work and who agreed to share a year of research history.
The nature of the art of Depotorter as a digital provocateur tried to interrogate the subtext of the hidden connections, adopting a “critical and humorous” approach to some of the most urgent issues of its generation. Surveillance, artificial intelligence, automatic learning and social media are recurring themes through its explorations. “Difficult subjects,” he says when we talk about zoom. “But there is not a great message. I want to leave it open. If nothing else, I want to show what is possible with technology in a playful way.”
In 2018, in a series entitled “Jaywalking”, he transformed the live surveillance feeds into video art, forcing viewers to confront the use of public data as a means of invasion of privacy. He followed him with Die with mea chat room app that can only be accessed when the phone had a battery life of less than 5 %; Although Depoorter is quick to refuse the definitive interpretations of his art, he read as a comment on the value of the time and how we choose to use it when you know it is going short. For those who can look beyond the shock of the initial presumption of brower dating, the question is also urgent: what happens if the curiosities that we commit so much to hide are actually the things that can meet?
Depotorter, 34, does not say he is any type of guru from appointments. “I’m not a specialist,” he says. He sailed Tinder in the first days of the app, but was with his partner for 10 years. He promises that, despite his work as an artist, the site is not an expedient and wants to continue climbing. People have already suggested that it could work better to combine potential friends rather than romantic partners. Depoorter foresees that there will be obstacles but they will not cover them with sugar; It is aware of how difficult it is to be the utility of users aboard that they share their anxieties and personal desires.
“Either people are fan of the idea or are not,” he says. “There is no conviction.”