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>Would online dating work better if it was like omegle. Like speed dating with video chat instead of just swiping on random photos of people?
The problem is that people might 'want' to go window shopping for dates. Christian Rudder describes an interesting experiment in the Dataclysm book, where they turned off photographs for a promotion event called "Love Is Blind Day". As it turns out, the messaging behaviour of people tanked (see top graph).
They later also tried to launch a blind date app, but it was a complete failure with people. However, the people who did use (on whom they had data from their OkCupid dataset - including their relative attractiveness) reported date satisfaction almost independently from their date partner's relative looks (see text / graphs below the first). So it could be that people are self-selecting out of having good experiences on the basis of their own choosiness.
However, I personally would caveat that with the possibility that people open to blind dates might be a demographic which is more open to experience and less hung up on looks / status in general, so it may not apply to the general population, who are already opting out of such games. Nevertheless interesting. It's also a cautionary example that ideas that look good on paper might not be appealing to people, regardless of whether they would enjoy the experience eventually.