Online dating: where does your data really go?

According to a German press release on the Experian web site, they are the back-end for the Parship online dating service. Wikipedia has a page about Parship, a popular service that started in Germany.

Users periodically see an error like this when accessing the Parship site from Tor, it shows just how tightly integrated Parship is with Experian.

I wrote about this previously in a blog post in 2018. In the six years that have passed, the surveillance possibilities have only become more oppressive for the ordinary user. The real goals of these services are building profiles of their users that can be useful in a wide range of marketing and price discrimination scenarios.