Is Badoo an Orwellian experiment? After years of using Badoo (without success) I suspect that some of the people whom I've chatting with (who always produced facile, generic conversations) were in fact bots. Highly sophisticated, but bots nonetheless. I also suspect that Badoo is free because it's a testing ground for algorithms, bots and AI. This can be proven by blocking some of the people who 'like' you. Block them and they come back and 'like' you again. Block them again, and they come back again. I wonder if meta data is collected and sent to government departments, so that they can refine their 'methods'.