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This is absurd. The return on investment for a bug like this must be extraordinarily high. The OP can fix it themselves by changing a string in the developer console.

A permanent new revenue stream from an entire country for the price of 1/16 of one employee's workday.

What kind of fires are burning at Tinder for that to not be a no brainer?

Side note: if there are any devs here from Tinder, I recommend you go fix this on your own initiative and get yourself some quantifiable money made for your employer for your next performance review.



1. It's not an entire country. It's people who use a Danish card and can't/won't subscribe through the Play Store. That's probably a tiny number of people.

2. Fires are almost always burning when you're supporting an app with millions of users expecting instant functionality, including instant messaging. They're also constantly working against bots and spammers.




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