I prefer web over app. I tried a site which was said to be free. signup was fine so i started to use the site only to realise to see my matches or start chats i had to pay for a “premium” account or something. that really annoys me and it’s a waste of my time so does anyone know any good dating sites which are actually free, as in i don’t have to pay to use the site for what it should be used for? thx in advance 👍

oh and I’m looking for men, forgot to specify lol

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    I like OK Cupid. It works perfectly without paying and matches are better as they are based on questions you answer and profiles contain more info. So it’s less evaluating lifestock like Tinder.

    There’s also Bumble, it used to be that the woman needs to start talking when matched within 24h otherwise the match disappears. This is so women won’t get spammed by loads of men. I heard they would change it, but I’m not sure if they actually did. It works fine without paying.

    There’s Boo, which I think is mostly for autistic and introvert people. Works fine with the free version.

    There’s Feeld, which works great without paying. The focus is mainly on sex, not so much relationship material imo.

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        Do the bots at least use AI to chat? Because that’s going to be better than the one word answers I get from the real people.

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      Ok Cupid used to be kind that, but they completely butchered the question part of it, in my opinion it is no longer useful. Also as a white cis male you get spammed there by literally hundreds of accounts from the Philippines. Makes the whole thing useless in my opinion

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        Yeah that’s true. About 60% of the women I see are from Asia / Africa / South America.

        I wish they would disable the custom location feature to solve this clutter.

        I live in The Netherlands, there are enough people here on the app to make it worth while. It’s how I met my new partner.

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          I wish they would disable the custom location feature to solve this clutter.

          It’s REALLY useful for travelling/migration. I made a penpal/IRL friend through there using this very feature. They should deal with it by reports and etc.

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            Yeah, that’s how I met my current partner. She lives in Portugal but had her location in my city. It does have benefits, but it also extremely clutters the app with gold diggers from the other side of the globe.

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          I live in The Netherlands, there are enough people here on the app to make it worth while. It’s how I met my new partner.

          Congrats btw

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      Bumble did chenge that. Now the woman decides who has to start the convo once they match. You can also set some prompts for the other person to reply to.