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You can pay $5 to find out if someone you know is on Tinder

A new service called Swipe Buster lets you see if anyone, whether it be your significant other or an estranged ex, is active on Tinder.

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For $5 per search, the website pulls from Tinder's public data to pinpoint an individual's profile, including their photos, orientation, and when they last logged into the popular dating app. To find someone, you'll need their name, age, gender, and a good estimate of the city where they last logged into Tinder. 

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A screenshot from Swipe Buster's website. Swipe Buster

By filtering through Tinder's otherwise unsearchable trove of profiles, Swipe Buster offers a superhuman-like ability for those willing to pay.

Vanity Fair reports that it actually works as advertised. 

You can't message or swipe on profiles through Swipe Buster. The tool is clearly geared towards people who make Tinder accounts for reasons like this:

"The searchable information on the website is public information that Tinder users have on their profiles," a Tinder spokesperson told Tech Insider in a statement. "If you want to see who's on Tinder we recommend saving your money and downloading the app for free."

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