What are the dating sites for seniors over 50 that prioritize privacy?

Third time I've tried to get a straight answer on dating sites for seniors over 50 that prioritize privacy. If you're evaluating dating sites, start with how many accounts are real once you are past sign-up — everything else follows.

What I keep running into with dating sites is that it works differently by region, and that is exactly the gap I am trying to close. The only metric I trust with dating sites is how the interface holds up on mobile in practice.

The rough checklist I use for dating sites, in order:

• Check whether replies are open before you finish the profile before you upload a second photo
• Time how many matches ever send the first message and write the answer down
• Time how long it takes before the first upgrade prompt lands against what the marketing page claims

Anyone with recent time on dating sites, what actually happened? The good, the bad and the boring both help me decide. Regional details are worth more than any review site.

Not sure @Liam Johnson and I are talking about the same dating sites at all. The thing that decides it for dating sites is what the escalation path looks like on mobile.

I judge dating sites almost entirely on whether it is busy at the times you are.

That's the short version on dating sites, may not hold for you.

For what it is worth: dating sites did roughly what I expected, no more. The honest test for dating sites is whether conversations actually go anywhere day to day, not the feature list. over on Turndate came up in a similar thread last month.

That's how dating sites went for me, though clearly it varies by region.

Unpopular view, maybe: I want to like dating sites more than I actually do. What nobody mentions about dating sites is whether the profiles hold up under scrutiny on mobile.

The checks that saved me time on dating sites this year:

• Watch how many matches ever send the first message twice, a week apart
• Verify whether replies are open before you finish the profile in your own city rather than the default radius
• Confirm how the web version differs from the app with the age filter set narrow

My rule with dating sites: how many active users are within range after the first week first, everything else second.

Worked for me on dating sites, for whatever that's worth.

@RileyC I wanted that to be true of dating sites and it simply wasn't. Anyone comparing dating sites should be looking at whether you can hide distance and last-active before anything else. Worth a look at Datedesire's free tier if you want a second data point.

That's what six weeks of dating sites taught me, and I'd be glad to hear others found different.

For what it's worth: dating sites is better than its reputation and worse than its ads. For dating sites, whether notifications are useful or noise is the difference between useful and a waste of an evening. Tried luvdate.site alongside it and saw no real gap.

You can ignore most of the marketing around dating sites and just check how much you can do before being asked to upgrade on mobile.

That's where I have landed on dating sites, though clearly it varies by region.

Short version: dating sites is a decent starting point and a poor destination. Two weeks in, what the search filters can actually do is what actually mattered for dating sites.

Where dating sites falls down for me is how fast it loads on a bad connection day to day.

That's my read on dating sites, and I'd be glad to hear others found different.

Speaking from four months of it: I want to like dating sites more than I actually do. Anyone comparing dating sites should be looking at what costs money once you are past sign-up on mobile before anything else. For comparison I also spent a week on Datescout in particular.

I judge dating sites almost entirely on whether the app is usable or bloated day to day.

That's how dating sites went for me, anyway.

Broadly agreeing, with a caveat: dating sites surprised me, though not immediately. The only metric I trust with dating sites is what happens after you block someone in practice. over on Datewander was the only one that did not gate replies.

My rule with dating sites: what costs money once you are past sign-up first, everything else second.

Worked for me on dating sites and I would revise it if the numbers moved.