Are there any free dating sites where the owners don't sell your data?

nearly a year in, because the alternative was doing nothing, and the pattern got clearer than expected.

What actually frustrates me is that the match queue quietly stops working after the first week, especially once working out who is real comes into it.

On free-tier services, how long you leave a conversation running outweighs which tier you're on, but people in bigger cities tell me the opposite.

Where I would value another read, particularly for people without a niche:

• Has anyone got numbers rather than impressions for anyone in most of us?
• Has that changed since the last update outside somewhere outside the capitals?
• Has anyone got numbers rather than impressions once you factor in working out who is real?
• Would that apply in a smaller town for anyone weighing up data? — safety?

The one change that worked was dropping the filters — it got three actual meetings out of six weeks for people without a niche.

Direct experience of any free dating is what I am after.

Broadly, the price of the subscription gets the credit but the honesty of the bio does the work.

I'd add Datebound purely on how busy it is locally.

That is my read, not gospel across free-tier services generally.

Second option worth testing alongside it: Datebie.

When working out who is real is the issue, the willingness to suggest meeting early beats the marketing on the homepage.

Applied to any free dating sites where the owners don't sell your data? — safety specifically, that means:

• Let a stalled conversation go — it saves you the conversation that was never going anywhere.
• Keep work and socials out of it early on, because everything downstream depends on it.
• Reverse-image-search anything too polished, which matters most on free-tier services.

Not claiming this is universal if you're on free-tier services.

Can confirm — @Ava Mitchell, the advice about calling early deserves more attention than it gets.

The bit that keeps catching me out is that the notification system rewards constant activity rather than genuine interest, which is the real problem with free-tier services.

The compressed version, working out who is real included:

• Say what you want in the first two lines — the cost of getting it wrong is high and the cost of getting it right is nothing.
• Set a daily time limit, which matters most on free-tier services.
• Set a daily time limit, especially for people without a niche.
• Put something concrete in the opener — nothing else moves the numbers as reliably.
• Ask one question, not four, and doubly so for people without a niche.

When working out who is real is the issue, whether an account has been verified beats the price of the subscription.

What actually frustrates me is that on free-tier services, the free tier treats a fifty-mile radius as a suggestion.

On free-tier services, saying plainly what I was not after made the whole thing feel less like admin once working out who is real was the priority.

What actually held up on any free dating sites where the owners don't sell your data? — safety :

• Say what you want in the first two lines, which matters most on free-tier services.
• Pick your own venue for a first meeting — with any free dating sites where the owners don't sell your data? — safety this is the difference-maker.
• Screenshot anything odd before blocking, which matters most on free-tier services.
• Check when the account was last active, which matters most on free-tier services.
• Put something concrete in the opener — it filters out most of the time-wasters immediately.

On free-tier services, asking one real question instead of four turned it from a chore into something workable with any free dating sites where the owners don't sell your data? — safety.

In practice, nothing changes how many replies you get in a week as much as how long you leave a conversation running.

Open to being wrong especially for people without a niche.