Move over Tinder swipes and Bumble buzzes—there’s a new surefire way to broadcast your midnight panic Googles about “Is a brownie overdose possible?” or “Why does my toe smell like Fritos?” straight to your prospective soulmate.
Enter Browser Dating, the experimental creation of Belgian digital prankster Dries Depoorter, where your 5,000 most recent searches become your romantic résumé.
Because who needs carefully curated profiles when you can bare your deepest, darkest search history up front?
How It Works (Or Doesn’t)
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Download a Chrome or Firefox extension.
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Export your recent browser history (up to 5,000 entries).
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Upload it to Browser Dating.
Poof—instant “browsing personality profile” powered by AI. Matches are suggested based on shared obsessions (hello, fellow Wikipedia-divers of the “dancing plague”!) rather than “Which filter makes my cheekbones pop?”
“There’s honesty in that,” claims Depoorter, insisting his site is 100% legit—just don’t ask Grandma what she thinks about “Def Leppard lyrics stuck in my head” being the key to love.
Why It’s Ridiculous (But Also Kind of Genius)
Eighty-seven percent of daters admit they lie on profiles. Browser Dating forces you to own everything—from “gluten-free brownie recipes” to “yoga poses for hangnails.”
“Instead of choosing the best pictures or best things about yourself, this will show a side of you that you’d never pick,” Depoorter explains, gleefully. “You have to upload all of it.”
Yet just 1,000 brave souls have dove in since. Maybe outraged cough syrup searches and late-night cat-murder fantasies aren’t the pick-up lines they once dreamed of.
Privacy Schmivacy
Understandably, users fret about handing over their digital dirt. Depoorter swears the AI processing happens locally:
“It’s not exposed to the internet,” he says, as though that solves every potential leak of your embarrassing medical searches.
Still no photo uploads—yet.
And good luck deleting your profile: initial reports claim you couldn’t… until Depoorter “fixed” it.
Next up, he plans push notifications like “Your buddy John typed ‘am I attractive?’—Match now?”
Pricing: One-Time Fee (Because He’s an Artist)
Forget monthly subscriptions.
Browser Dating charges a one-time fee for unlimited matches; free users get a stingy five matches. When questioned why, Depoorter shrugs:
“I’m an artist, I like to do things differently.”
Sure, Dries—because nothing says “true love” like a flat-fee, pay-once-for-my-experiments model.
The Verdict So Far
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“Super weird,” admitted one app developer on X.
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“What an audacious concept,” another lamented on Product Hunt.
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“Privacy focus? Bold,” a programmer noted on Bluesky—before logging off and installing AdBlock.
Could This Actually Work?
Spoiler alert: probably not as a hookup app.
But as a commentary on data surveillance, it’s uncanny.
Depoorter’s past projects—surveillance video art Jaywalking and the deathbed chatroom Die With Me—proved he enjoys blurring reality and digital provocation.
“If anything, I want to show what is possible with technology in a playful way,” he says.
Indeed, nothing screams “playful” like revealing your cat’s date-of-birth googles and your existential dread in one fell swipe.
If you’re brave (or utterly masochistic), Browser Dating awaits.
Just remember: your next match might be someone who also binged “horrifying earwax diseases” at 3 a.m.—so either true love awaits or very, very awkward dinner conversation.
Either way, you can’t argue with honesty… even if it’s your browser history.
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