A cavalcade of potential partners appears when you open the app on your smartphone: photo and profile after photo and profile. Interested in that one? Just swipe right or click the “Like” button and you’ve made the first move. Online dating – online meeting, actually, whether through a dating website or app such as Tinder, Bumble and Hinge – has been around for a while. In Germany alone, an estimated 20 million people – or roughly a quarter of the population – have tried it, according to a 2022 survey by Bitkom, the country’s digital association. Roughly 60% of the respondents said it had led …