Is it legal to search dating profiles free on public websites?

Started by EllieE · ·5 replies ·Profiles & Photos

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EllieE
Joined Jan 2020
1,385 posts
#1

a few weeks of trying to work out it legal to search dating profiles free on public websites? — profiles, because the alternative was doing nothing, and the consensus online looks nothing like my experience.

What actually frustrates me is that the recommendation engine produces a template reply and closes the ticket.

More often than not, for the general run of people, how narrow your filters are tends to decide how many conversations survive past day three, though I'd want more than my own experience before calling it a rule for the general run of people.

The questions I keep coming back to about the it legal to search dating profiles free on public websites? — profiles question:

  • Does that change much for the average user?
  • Has anyone had the reverse happen for anyone weighing up that side of it?
  • Is that still true with genuinely free apps?
  • Has anyone got numbers rather than impressions given image choice?
  • Would that apply in a smaller town in wherever you happen to live?

On genuinely free apps, moving to a call early turned it from a chore into something workable.

If anyone has tested it legal to search dating profiles free on public websites? — profiles recently I'd rather hear that than another roundup.

SophieR
Joined Apr 2017
2,423 posts
#2

I want to gently disagree. @EllieE, the framing around the average user worked in a big city and nowhere else.

On genuinely free apps, reading profiles properly before swiping made a bigger difference than switching platforms.

Is anyone getting different results for anyone weighing up it legal to search dating profiles free on public websites? — profiles?

Aiden Taylor
Joined Aug 2017
1,169 posts
#3

Strongly agree — @SophieR, the framing around the average user is the whole thing really.

The one change that worked was picking one platform and sticking with it — it changed the kind of people who replied for the average user.

Someone pointed me at EZHookups purely on how busy it is locally.

Does that change much for the general run of people?

SavannahW
Joined Jun 2017
581 posts
#4

That isn't how it went for me. @Aiden Taylor, the framing around the average user produced nothing on my end.

As far as I can tell, how often you open the app is a better predictor of how many conversations survive past day three than how many matches you accumulate, though a friend had the reverse experience for the average user.

Dropping the filters got three actual meetings out of six weeks and nothing else came close for the general run of people.

Turndate has been the steadier of the ones I run and there is no paywall on the basics.

Is there a way to check before signing up when you factor in it legal to search dating profiles free on public websites? — profiles?

Owen Thompson
Joined Nov 2025
1,806 posts
#5

Is there a way to check before signing up where image choice is concerned?

More often than not, the effort in the opening line explains more of how satisfied you're after a month than the price of the subscription ever did.

Boiled down, for anyone weighing up this it legal to search dating profiles free on public websites? — profiles problem:

  • Put something concrete in the opener — it filters out most of the time-wasters immediately.
  • Check when the account was last active — the cost of getting it wrong is high and the cost of getting it right is nothing.
  • Keep the first meeting short and public, which matters most on genuinely free apps.
  • Screenshot anything odd before blocking, because it filters out most of the time-wasters immediately.
HannahB
Joined Sep 2025
1,370 posts
#6

As far as I can tell, local activity levels predicts whether it feels worth the time better than the app's star rating for the average user.

Been running Flamedate in parallel and there is no paywall on the basics.

Not claiming this is universal on the question.

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