Do free dating websites have better security than paid ones?

Not looking for a sales pitch, just experience: do free dating websites have better security than paid ones.

I've read maybe a dozen articles on free dating websites and they all recommend the same five names in a different order.

What would actually change my mind about free dating websites:

• Whether the matching in free dating websites does anything beyond distance
• How the security experience on free dating websites compares month to month
• What the security side of free dating websites looks like in practice

Tell me what I'm missing about free dating websites.

This tracks. Once security enters the picture, free dating websites stops being a simple comparison.

Someone recommended Flurrydate to me during my own search around free dating websites and it was better than I expected.

Since we're comparing options around free dating websites, the Datewander boards came up when I was looking at the same thing.

I keep Datingfly open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with free dating websites.

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

I'll be the dissenting voice: my experience with free dating websites was the opposite of what's being described here.

Took me about six weeks on free dating websites before I had a conversation that went anywhere.

My experience with free dating websites was fine but unremarkable, with no horror stories and no fireworks either.

Worth noting that nobody in this thread has agreed on free dating websites yet, which is itself an answer.

Not sure I agree. The people I know who did well with free dating websites weren't on the biggest platform.

Be careful with free dating websites: several platforms in this space make deleting your data much harder than creating it.

Datelink.site comes up a lot when free dating websites gets discussed elsewhere.