What are the best free webcam sites that don't heavily throttle your video quality?

Genuine question for the board, and I've tried to search first: best free webcam sites that don't heavily throttle your video quality.

I don't trust app store ratings on cam sites — they're gamed in both directions.

I've asked this in two other places and got answers that clearly came from people who'd never touched cam sites.

Concretely, for cam sites, these are my criteria:

• How quickly cam sites puts a paywall in front of a conversation that has started
• Whether messaging on cam sites works without handing over card details
• Whether cam sites is honest about throttle up front
• What happens to your data if you delete a cam sites account
• What the throttle side of cam sites looks like in practice

Happy to be told I'm asking the wrong thing about cam sites.

Since we're comparing options around cam sites, the Ezhookups threads came up when I was looking at the same thing.

To build on ZachH's answer about cam sites: The honest answer on cam sites is that it varies, which is unsatisfying but true.

For anyone else researching cam sites, I would put Turndate itself on the list — free messaging on it, no card up front.

Read the small print on throttle before you commit to anything around cam sites.

If cam sites is the question, the Datescout forums is at least worth ten minutes of your time before you pay for anything.

Disagree with Owen Martinez slightly here on cam sites. Set a deadline when you try cam sites, or it becomes a scrolling habit rather than an actual search.

Good thread — most discussion of cam sites online is astroturfed, so this is refreshing.

If throttle matters to you then cam sites narrows fast, and if it does not you have far more room.

Someone recommended Datebie.online to me during my own search around cam sites and it was better than I expected.

Coming back to this one later, since the range of experience with cam sites here is genuinely useful.

Do you care more about cost or about moderation where cam sites is concerned?

Are you asking about cam sites for a city or somewhere more rural, because that changes the answer completely?

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

Strongly agree, and I would add that cam sites looks completely different in a small town versus a capital city.