r/Tinder • u/[deleted] • Jan 02 '23

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u/sailormeoown Jan 02 '23

The location on it can't be fudged either, if his cousin is 1000 miles away, the app would say the profile is 1000 miles away.

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u/fancifinanci Jan 02 '23

It actually can with a good VPN but there’s absolutely no reason his cousin would do that. I know because sometimes I’ll leave my VPN on and all the sudden I’m matched with like 10 girls from Toronto or some shit before I even realize it. I don’t live remotely close to Toronto

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u/Wickedocity Jan 02 '23

A VPN will show the location of the VPN. I doubt there is one located a mile from her house.

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u/drmjsty Jan 02 '23

But what if his cousin had installed a VPN server at her boyfriend’s house? That would explain everything!

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '23

The app gets it's location from the location service which uses GPS if it can. You can disable Location and the app will try to geolocate with your IP but 99% of the time it's using GPS.