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[GUIDE] HOW TO BYPASS THE SHADOWBAN
Let’s not cope: Match Group is a cartel.I’ve been super vocal about the bloody rigged nature of Hinge and other dating app slop. The system is engineered with a brutal, omnipresent bias against us men. The algorithm is designed to suppress your ELO score unless you pay up like a good little paypig cuck.
They will gladly drain your bank account for Roses, Hinge+, and Boosts—no questions asked. But the second you start winning or trigger a false flag? They nuke your account into oblivion without hesitation.
I’ve been shadowbanned on Hinge for years, Why? I don't even know or care anymore. Its not like they even respond to my emails.
THE STATE OF THE GAME
Hinge is currently like the best for finding a date atm. While Tinder is filled with bots and subhuman Swine.- The Stats: Hinge is the fastest-growing app among Gen Z and Millennials.
- The Reality: If you are banned from Hinge, you are effectively cucked beyond belief.
THE WORKAROUND
I could write a manifesto on why the online dating spectrum is trash, but complaining is a massive cope. We focus on solutions. We focus on results.I view Hinge as a necessary evil to source dates and ascend. Instead of rotting about the unfairness, I decided to reverse-engineer their security.
Through systematic trial and error, I have found the exploit to bypass the device ban and create fresh, high-ELO Hinge accounts. Even with their bi-monthly security updates designed to catch us out, this method holds up.
I am currently using this exact method to run a fresh profile, source leads, and secure lays.
If you have tried appealing your ban and got hit with the standard bot response, it’s time to take control.
New Sim Card 
With a shadow ban, your phone number is blacklisted. You are going to need a new phone number, which means you will need a new sim card.
You can buy these at chain discount stores like Dollar General, corner stores etc. for just a couple of bucks. In the U.K, Poundland or Home Bargains sell them for £1.
I'd recommend doing some research and picking one up that allows you to buy a very cheap internet package as an add-on feature.
New Email Address 
As well as your phone number, your email address is also blacklisted.
This is pretty easy to get around. I go onto Google and create a new Google Account to get a new G-mail address which takes a few minutes. Any email provider will do - doesn't have to be Google.
It's also worth getting a little password book or a piece of paper to make a note of your new email address and password for when you do login to Tinder and they ask you to verify your email address. Saves you the hassle of going through a password reset further down the line when you can't remember your login details (speaking from personal experience).
New Phone 
Hinge's database will detect when you are using the same phone to try and make a new account.
You have 2 options to bypass this:
Factory reset your phone
or...
Get a burner phone to use for your Hinge account.
To save losing all of your data on your main phone, I would recommend the latter.
I bought a Samsung Galaxy A14 for £100 new, plus a sim card with a cheap internet package deal that I can cancel any time.
If I get re-banned for whatever reason, I just factory reset this phone, and then get a new sim card and repeat the process. My main phone then retains all it's data and I don't have to mess around with it.
Used phone stores are also ideal to get cheap phones, like Back Market and CEX. You don't need anything fancy like the latest iPhone. Something cheap but decent is what you want to aim for.
I got the Samsung Galaxy A14 5G and it's fit for purpose and works well.
Got this on amazon for 100 good goy points
New Photos or Alter previous ones 
Hinge can somehow also detect photos you use from your old profile by recognising the metadata.
Using old photos may flag up on the blacklist database and lock you out of your new account.
You again have 2 options to get around this:
Use new photos
or
Alter your old ones.
If like me you had some very good photos on your previous profile, altering them to bypass Tinder's detection algorithm is quite a simple process. Below is a tutorial:
- Use an online metadata stripper. You can strip the metadata, then download the photo with it removed. I use this one: Metadata remover - Online EXIF data remover (pics.io)
2. Crop the photo slightly, either on your phone or laptop.
3. Add some very small 'paint dots' onto the image using your phone or laptop. If you look where the red arrow is below, you can see a few small dots I've added in. You can use black dots on a black background to make them blend in. Aim here is to fool the computer algorithm and not the naked human eye, so don't worry too much as long as they are there.
This should be enough to re-use your old photos without getting flagged.
Different Internet Connection 
You will also need a new internet connection. Tinder detects any previous internet setups, so your home WiFi is out, and your previous 4G or 5G you've used through your mobile network.
Public WiFi can be an option, but it depends if you want to take a trip out of the house and buy a coffee at Starbucks just to use their internet and swipe on Hinge. I didn't, so I paid the 10 bucks a month for a 'cancel anytime' internet add-on to my sim card.
When shopping for a new sim card, look to see if you can get a cheap internet add-on from the service provider.
Using Hinge won't actually use too much data regardless. I convert girls to WhatsApp or text ASAP anyway onto my main phone after we've chatted a bit.
Revolut for any purchases
This one caught me out early on.
Hinge will now detect any previous payment cards and bank accounts that you may have used to purchase Boosts, Superlikes, Gold, Platinum etc.
Hinge will hold this data for 10 years.
The workaround for this one is to use a company like Revolut.
Revolut or a similar company will allow you to generate a new, virtual card which you can put money into using Apple/Google Pay, or a regular debit card. You can also obtain a disposable card on Revolut for a one-off payment.
You input the card details into the Hinge 'payment details' section when purchasing something as normal, and as long as your card is topped up with the sufficient funds, the payment will go through.
HOW TO BYPASS PHOTO VERIFICATION
I recently conducted an expirement to see if I could bypass the photo-verification stage and it worked.
I recently photo-verified and managed to get through. I was surprised, but realised it has been over a year since I got banned from Tinder. I also swiped and matched with girls, so I wasn't taken out of the stack.
If banned, set a countdown for 1 year and 1 month and then follow all of the above steps before trying to photo-verify.
Patience is key to this one and as you're verified, it'll be worth it as it lessens the likelihood of girls thinking 'scammer'.
1 Year to build muscle, get a photoshoot or 2 done, build a good profile and self-improve to be ready for jumping back on doesn't actually sound like a bad idea: Make it into a game.
POST SETUP PRECAUTIONS 
If you have followed all of the above steps, you should now be good to go and have set up your new Hinge profile.There are a few further precautions I'd recommend so your hard work doesn't get shot down at the last minute.
DO NOT PHOTO-VERIFY FOR 12 MONTHS 
If you photo-verify within 12 months of a ban, then your photo will be subject to the enhanced scanning feature - once it goes through this security scan, it'll flag your profile as previously banned, then lock you out.The only option with this is to reject any prompts to photo-verify your profile in the meantime.
You will now unfortunately have to live with an unverified Hinge profile for a while, but I still make it work. I put something humorous in my bio:
Happy to prove I'm not secretly a 45 year-old, fat, bald dude called 'Hector' .
If a girl wants a video call or a voice note, etc. to prove I'm not some fat, 60 year-old Nigerian sex killer or whatever, then I'm happy to accommodate her.
I look at it from the female point of view:
Meeting strange men from the internet can be risky. There are a lot of fake profiles as well as crime documentaries and scare stories out there on psychos using Hinge to target victims.
ALLOW FOR A COOLING-OFF PERIOD
I'd recommend giving it a few days before buying anything or upgrading.
It's important to have this cooling-off period, as if you upgrade and then get re-banned, Hinge WILL NOT give you your money back for any purchases you may have made.
3-5 days is generally enough time to means test your new profile. If you get re-banned, at least you haven't lost money on any premium features. After this period, you should be good to go on making purchases. Just remember to use your alternate virtual card/account.
UNMATCH GIRLS IF YOU MEET THEM 
A friend of mine got banned because he had a bad date with a girl, wasn't feeling it, and told her - she then reported him to Hinge for 'harassment' as a petty form of revenge for his honesty.He got banned as a result.
To this day, he is still banned on Hinge with no explanation.
There is a lesson to learn from this.
If I meet a girl on Hinge in-person now and I've got her number, I will un-match her. There is absolutely no further need to have her on my Hinge stack if I have her number/socials.
Some women (and some men) can be very, very, petty and vindictive if something does go wrong for whatever reason. The only form of revenge some people may have is to make up some bullshit to the 'Hinge police' to get you banned.
I can 100% guarantee from personal experience and from speaking to other men that as a man, Hinge will instantly take the girl's side if a report is made and will not be interested in hearing you out whatsoever.
FINAL THOUGHTS 
Getting around a Hinge ban may seem like a bit of hard work, but I still stand by the point that Hinge is a necessary evil in today's world if you want to date and get laid easily. There isn't really much of a viable alternative out there at the moment.I look at it from the viewpoint of luck - we are lucky that we are born into a time period where we can access hundreds of girls at our finger tips. Our parents and grandparents had to do strictly cold approach, or take out a 'lonely hearts' ad in the newspaper.
We have hundreds of opportunities and open doors to walk through and benefit from with online dating. Sadly, we run out of luck when it comes to who is in charge of the dating websites and how they operate.
I shall still continue to call out Hinge and the other 'Dating Cartels' for the biased and unscrupulous, shady business practices they seem to get away with daily. Until a better alternative comes along, we just have to find workarounds and do the best with what we got.
