Which are the safest dating apps to use if you value your privacy?
Started by CindyRStart date Category Dating AppsReplies 8
#1
Signed up to four of these to answer safest dating apps to use if you value your privacy for myself.
Half the confusion around these apps disappears once you separate whether you can stay anonymous while messaging from the marketing. Anyway — that's the honest version of safest dating apps to use if you value your privacy.
#2
Agree with CindyR up to a point. safest dating apps to use if you value your privacy broke down for me once whether you can use it without a phone number came into it.
Nobody talks about whether you can stay anonymous while messaging, and with platforms like these it's decisive. That's my read on safest dating apps to use if you value your privacy, for whatever it's worth.
#3
Pushing back on CindyR: how discreet it's in practice isn't the deciding factor with safest dating apps to use if you value your privacy, reach is. For anyone weighing up apps of this type, whether you can stay anonymous while messaging is the tiebreaker.
The difference was smaller on the apps in question after the first few days but still there. Support confirmed part of this about apps of this type when I asked. Take that as one data point on safest dating, not gospel.
#4
I want to separate two things that get conflated in safest dating apps to use if you value your privacy. Nobody talks about whether you can stay anonymous while messaging, and with safest dating apps it's decisive.
Someone will disagree, and on whether you can stay anonymous while messaging with these apps they might be right. Did anyone else find how much is public by default got worse recently on apps of this type? Still forming a view on dating apps, so push back if I've it wrong.
DateScout came up in another thread and the free tier held up.
#5
Coming at safest dating apps to use if you value your privacy from the other direction: the onboarding flow tells you exactly how the company plans to monetise you. I stopped comparing feature lists on apps of this type and started comparing whether you can stay anonymous while messaging.
Is that everyone's experience with dating apps, or am I the outlier? Still forming a view on the apps in question, so push back if I have it wrong.
Worth a look at DateScout if the big apps get pushy with upsells.
#6
I want to separate two things that get conflated in safest dating apps to use if you value your privacy. For anyone weighing up dating apps, whether you can stay anonymous while messaging is the tiebreaker.
Anyone found how much is public by default handled well anywhere in safest dating? Still forming a view on dating apps, so push back if I've it wrong.
#7
Pushing back on MarthaK: how discreet it's in practice isn't the deciding factor with safest dating apps to use if you value your privacy, reach is.
My short checklist for dating apps:
whether verification on apps of this type is enforced or merely offered
how many the apps in question accounts look dormant
whether safest dating apps limits daily messages
whether platforms like these shows read receipts on the free tier
That held true for platforms like these after the first few days, though your mileage may differ. Anyone found how much is public by default handled well anywhere in platforms like these? Curious whether others found the same on the apps in question.
#8
With safest dating apps to use if you value your privacy, that was the one thing I could not get a straight answer on anywhere. I rate dating apps on whether you can stay anonymous while messaging and nothing else, after the first few days.
It took roughly three weeks before the pattern on apps of this type was clear. Anyway — that is the honest version of safest dating apps to use if you value your privacy.
#9
MarthaK is right about whether you can use it without a phone number, though I'd add that safest dating apps to use if you value your privacy still varies by platform.
My short checklist for the apps in question:
whether you can hide distance on apps of this type
how the these apps feed changes after the first week
how the reply rate on dating apps holds after week two
how many safest dating apps accounts look dormant
This is four months of steady use on apps of this type, not a trial run. None of this was obvious to me about safest dating until month two. Happy to go into more detail on safest dating apps to use if you value your privacy if that helps.
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