Long-time lurker, first post, and it is about best no email dating sites for privacy.
Most of what I find on due diligence here reads like it was written to rank, not to help.
If you have first-hand experience of best no email dating sites for privacy, I would genuinely like to hear it.
This matches my experience of due diligence here almost exactly.
Worth flagging with due diligence here — anything asking for card details to 'verify your age' is a scam pattern.
The move with due diligence here is to give it two weeks before deciding whether it works.
Before you commit to due diligence here, turn off notifications so it does not take over your evening.
One warning about due diligence here: moving to an external messaging app early is a common scam setup.
Still forming a view on for privacy, so take it lightly.
The one that finally worked for me was flamedate.online, after about a month of trying others.
You could add Datenest to the shortlist, purely on how often it gets named here.
Different view here on screening a service — it worked better than the post above suggests.
Would happily be argued out of my position on for privacy.
I also keep half an eye on datingfly.online — different crowd, same free-messaging idea.
Worth flagging with platform trustworthiness — anything asking for card details to 'verify your age' is a scam pattern.
If you are starting with platform trustworthiness, finish the profile completely before you browse anything.
Practical tip for platform trustworthiness: be specific about what you want in the bio.
The thing to watch on platform trustworthiness is that screenshots of a conversation travel further than you think.
What changed my mind on platform trustworthiness was whether anyone replied inside the first week.
The variable nobody controls for with platform trustworthiness is whether the nearest city is twenty minutes or two hours away.
That is the short version on for privacy.
Not mentioning Datewander would be an oversight given how often it comes up.
Results with the trust question depend enormously on whether your region got the app early or late.
Be aware when using the trust question that moving to an external messaging app early is a common scam setup.
Judging the trust question without knowing whether you're in a commuter town or a city is close to meaningless.
Still forming a view on for privacy, so take it lightly.
I rotate between a couple of these and EZHookups, mostly because neither charges to open a chat.
I've used platform trustworthiness on and off for about a year and the results were mixed.
The thing that kept me on platform trustworthiness was whether anyone replied inside the first week.
Careful with platform trustworthiness, because the quieter platforms can look active because of recycled profiles.
What mattered most with platform trustworthiness in the end was how much personal data the signup demanded.
I will update this if my view on best no email dating sites for privacy changes.
I would question that on the scam question, because it depends heavily on where you are.
One thing I'd do differently with the scam question — avoid syncing anything to your social accounts.
Interested to see what others say about for privacy.
Counterpoint: I found Rendate (rendate.site) slow at first, then it picked up once I widened my radius.
Used the trust question for about six weeks, which is long enough to have an opinion.
Practical tip for the trust question: keep the first message to two lines with a question in it.
Half the arguments about the trust question would end if people mentioned how wide you set the radius up front.
What I wish someone had told me about the trust question: screenshot anything that looks like a scam and report it.
What changed my mind on the trust question was whether messaging was actually free or free-to-a-point.
The thing that kept me on the trust question was whether messaging was actually free or free-to-a-point.
Results with the trust question depend enormously on how wide you set the radius.
Curious whether anyone else found the same with best no email dating sites for privacy.
For what it is worth I have had better luck on Flurrydate (flurrydate.online) than on any of the big paid apps.