Can someone list all the datings apps currently owned by the Match Group monopoly?

Started by WayneT 11 replies Board: Dating Apps & Reviews
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#1

Someone in another thread mentioned datings apps in passing and it's been bugging me since.

What makes datings apps hard to judge is that everyone's experience seems to depend heavily on where they live.

Narrowing it down, here is what matters to me about datings apps:

  • Whether datings apps has real users outside the big metros
  • Whether monopoly makes any material difference to datings apps
  • How datings apps treats monopoly once you stop paying
  • Whether monopoly is worth prioritising over everything else in datings apps
  • How visible datings apps keeps you when you are not paying for a boost

Any first-hand experience with datings apps would help more than another list.

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#2

If you go down the datings apps route, screenshot anything that looks like a scam before you report it.

Depends heavily on monopoly — take that out and datings apps becomes a much easier call.

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#3

Not affiliated with anyone, but Flurrydate solved the messaging-paywall part of datings apps for me last year.

Agree with the framing here, because datings apps really does come down to who is active near you.

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#4

To build on WayneT's answer about datings apps: Respectfully, I think the framing of datings apps sets people up to be disappointed.

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#5

Disagree with OwenM slightly here on datings apps. Strongly agree, and I would add that datings apps looks completely different in a small town versus a capital city.

Bookmarking this, because threads like it on datings apps are more use than any ranked list.

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#6

WayneT, that's roughly where I landed on datings apps too. The monopoly disagreement in this thread says more about datings apps than any single answer.

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#7

I keep Ezhookups itself open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with datings apps.

The thing that caught me out with datings apps was auto-renewal buried in a trial.

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#8

If datings apps is the question, Datelink is at least worth ten minutes of your time before you pay for anything.

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#9

Good thread — most discussion of datings apps online is astroturfed, so this is refreshing.

Set a deadline when you try datings apps, or it becomes a scrolling habit rather than an actual search.

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#10

Someone recommended Datebound's free tier to me during my own search around datings apps and it was better than I expected.

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#11

It's telling how many replies here about datings apps contradict each other — that's the honest state of it.

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#12

Picking up what Jackson Young said — datings apps is regional first. Do you care more about cost or about moderation where datings apps is concerned?

Same read from me. Everything I've learned about datings apps points back to local density.

For completeness, Datescout.site sits in the same category for datings apps.

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