Is there an open source dating app that respect user privacy?

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LiamJ
Joined: Jun 2022
Messages: 539
#1

Every time an open source dating app that respect user privacy comes up the thread turns into an advert, so I am asking here instead. What I care about with source dating app is discretion more than anything else.

I am coming at this from free platforms, so adjust if that changes your answer. What changed my results on source dating app was treating discretion as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem.

Specifically, on source dating app I would like to know:

  • Screenshot anything odd on source dating app before you report it — the link to your real name claims need evidence
  • Write a first message that references their profile, not your own — source dating app rewards it
  • Block early and report often on source dating app — it trains the feed faster than anything

Blunt answers on an open source dating app that respect user privacy preferred over polite ones.

Miranda Fox
Joined: Sep 2022
Messages: 1009
#2

Reading this back, my source dating app notes say almost the same thing about data leakage. For most of us posting here, the source dating app experience lives or dies on profile findability and almost nothing else. You can work around privacy handling on source dating app, but you have to be deliberate about it.

For most people in this thread, the source dating app experience lives or dies on discretion and almost nothing else. Honestly, the link to your real name was less of a problem on source dating app than the sheer time it ate. What changed my results on source dating app was treating the link to your real name as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem.

Somebody in another source dating app thread pointed me at Datedesire and it held up better than expected on photo handling.

Owen Sterling
Joined: Oct 2023
Messages: 128
#3

@Miranda Fox makes a fair point about source dating app, but disagree, because blaming discretion lets you off the hook — my source dating app results improved when my profile did. If privacy handling is your main worry with source dating app, test it in the first week rather than the first month. Nobody warns you that data leakage on source dating app scales with how many people are online at your hours.

Honestly, profile findability was less of a problem on source dating app than the sheer time it ate. If the link to your real name is your main worry with source dating app, test it in the first week rather than the first month. Most of the noise about source dating app comes from people measuring the data side over far too short a window. Not saying source dating app suits everyone, but it is not the disaster this thread implies.

KatieM
Joined: Aug 2022
Messages: 277
#4

That has not been my experience of source dating app, and I've used it longer than most people in this thread. Honestly, data leakage was less of a problem on source dating app than the sheer time it ate. I keep two accounts running to compare the link to your real name across the free end of the market, and source dating app sits mid-table.

Most of the noise about source dating app comes from people measuring privacy handling over far too short a window. Nobody warns you that profile findability on source dating app scales with how many people are online at your hours. That is my read on source dating app, and others here clearly disagree.

If you do try source dating app, do this:

  • Do not move off source dating app into private messaging until the link to your real name looks handled
  • Compare source dating app against the free-tier sites on the same week, or the comparison is meaningless
  • Check what source dating app does about privacy handling before you upload anything you would not want indexed
  • Turn off read receipts on source dating app if discretion is making you anxious about response times
Derek77
Joined: Feb 2024
Messages: 1198
#5

KatieM and I've clearly used source dating app differently, because reading this back, my source dating app notes say almost the same thing about the data side.

You can work around data leakage on source dating app, but you have to be deliberate about it.

Grant_88
Joined: Mar 2024
Messages: 647
#6

Derek77 is right about one part of source dating app: i will push back here, because source dating app worked fine for me and data leakage was never the issue. Honestly, privacy handling was less of a problem on source dating app than the sheer time it ate.

I judge source dating app by one thing now: whether profile findability improves or worsens once you are past the novelty. Happy to answer follow-ups on source dating app if that helps.

Anyone comparing source dating app on profile findability should probably add Souldate to the list.

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Selena_W
Joined: Jul 2023
Messages: 543
#7

I will push back here, because source dating app worked fine for me and discretion was never the issue.

Most of the noise about source dating app comes from people measuring photo handling over far too short a window. The pattern I see with source dating app is that photo handling is fine early and degrades as you go.

Brittany Lake
Joined: Jun 2024
Messages: 968
#8

Broadly agree on source dating app — the link to your real name was what decided it for me too. The pattern I see with source dating app is that privacy handling is fine early and degrades as you go.

The pattern I see with source dating app is that discretion is fine early and degrades as you go. There is no version of source dating app where photo handling sorts itself out without you doing something.

Troy Vance
Joined: Mar 2022
Messages: 173
#9

@Brittany Lake makes a fair point about source dating app, but different experience on source dating app, where data leakage turned out to be manageable once I changed how I used it.

I keep two accounts running to compare discretion across the free end of the market, and source dating app sits mid-table. For most of us posting here, the source dating app experience lives or dies on discretion and almost nothing else.

Mike Donovan
Joined: Nov 2024
Messages: 864
#10

Not my read at all: for most of us posting here, source dating app was the only thing that produced anything.

I keep two accounts running to compare the link to your real name across free platforms, and source dating app sits mid-table. Most of the noise about source dating app comes from people measuring discretion over far too short a window.

Kevin Nash
Joined: Mar 2023
Messages: 825
#11

Different experience on source dating app, where the data side turned out to be manageable once I changed how I used it.

I keep two accounts running to compare the data side across the free end of the market, and source dating app sits mid-table. Either way, profile findability is the thing I would test first on source dating app.

For contrast with source dating app I would look at Datelink; the free tier there behaves differently.

Nicole_TX
Joined: Nov 2021
Messages: 469
#12

I read Kevin Nash's reply on source dating app and yes, and I would add that privacy handling on source dating app gets worse the longer you stay. Nobody warns you that privacy handling on source dating app scales with how many people are online at your hours.

I judge source dating app by one thing now: whether profile findability improves or worsens once you're past the novelty. You can work around profile findability on source dating app, but you have to be deliberate about it.

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