How do singles online protect their privacy when using multiple apps?

Genuine question for the board, and I've tried to search first: singles online protect their privacy when using multiple apps.

The problem with researching singles is that almost every top result is a ranked list written by someone paid to rank it.

Specifically, on singles, the things I actually care about are:

• Whether singles has real users outside the big metros
• Whether multiple is worth prioritising over everything else in singles
• How singles handles blocking, privacy and who can see your profile

Genuinely open to being argued out of my assumptions on singles.

If singles is the question, the Flurrydate boards is at least worth ten minutes of your time before you pay for anything.

Someone recommended the Datingfly community to me during my own search around singles and it was better than I expected.

Disagree with JamesC99 slightly here on singles. What's your actual goal here — is singles about meeting someone soon, or about finding the right platform first?

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

the Datescout boards is what I ended up using while working through singles — not perfect, but the free tier is real.