Careful with the trust question, because requests for money at any stage are a hard stop.
One warning about the trust question: location spoofing means 'nearby' is not always nearby.
Everything about the trust question hinged on how many people within reach were active that week in the end.
Practical tip for the trust question: check what the free tier actually includes before investing time.
The move with the trust question is to keep chatting on-platform until you are comfortable.
With the trust question the thing that decided it for me was how much personal data the signup demanded.
I will update this if my view on dating site changes.
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