However, things arent so bad that weve experienced one of the most brutal, harrowing, and upsetting dating trends out there. Coined by Mashables Rachel Thompson, cloaking is essentially when you get stood up on a date while simultaneously being blocked and removed from all social accounts.

Why do people cloak on dating apps?

Its one thing to have last-minute second thoughts about a date you set up, . but engaging in cloaking (leading someone to believe youre interested in them to the point of setting up a date, knowing theyll be thinking about it, excitedly getting ready for when you meet (and so on) is another thing entirely.

What is Cloaking on Tinder?

Cloaking Is The Latest Dating Trend And Experts Say Its Way Worse Than Ghosting. So, you do what any normal (and okay, a little nervous) stood-up person would and open the dating app. Thats when you notice… you two are no longer matches. Theres no way to ask, Are you coming? or contact them at all.

What do you mean by cloaking?

Cloaking refers to the practice of presenting different content or URLs to human users and search engines. Inserting text or keywords into a page only when the user agent thats requesting the page is a search engine, not a human visitor.

Is cloaking illegal?

Is cloaking illegal? Cloaking is an attempt to distort the search engine rankings by creating cloak content. It is an illegal practice and considered a Black hat SEO cloaking technique. There are instances where the search engines have permanently banned the websites who engage in cloaking from indexing on their sites.

Is cloaking good?

IMO, cloaking is the best system in the game. Not only does level 2 cloaking make the end boss far, far easier, it allows you to dodge all attacks from enemies full stop, sometimes completely crippling them before they can even fire.

What does cloaking mean in dating?

“Cloaking is when a person doesnt just stand you up for a date, they also block you on any app that youve previously communicated on,” UK Mashable reporter Rachel Thompson explained in a video describing a recent dating nightmare.