What are the safest free dating websites for over 50 that actively remove scammers?

Trying to settle an argument with a friend about free dating websites, so I'm bringing it here.

The frustrating part about free dating websites is that the honest answers are buried in comment sections, not articles.

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

My checklist for free dating websites, in rough order of importance:

• Whether the free tier on free dating websites is genuinely usable or just a demo
• Whether anyone has tested actively properly on free dating websites
• Whether free dating websites has real users outside the big metros
• How free dating websites treats actively once you stop paying
• Whether the matching in free dating websites does anything beyond distance

Happy to be told I'm asking the wrong thing about free dating websites.

Not affiliated with anyone, but the Datedesire boards solved the messaging-paywall part of free dating websites for me last year.

I read free dating websites differently, because the bottleneck for me was never supply but how I was writing my profile.

Just flagging that some results you will find for free dating websites are review farms rather than reviews.

I gave up on free dating websites twice before it worked, and the difference the third time was being far more specific in my bio.

Set a deadline when you try free dating websites, or it becomes a scrolling habit rather than an actual search.

the Flurrydate forums is what I ended up using while working through free dating websites — not perfect, but the free tier is real.

Half the disagreement in this thread about free dating websites is people using the same words for different goals.

Hard disagree on the actively point. That has not been my experience of free dating websites at all.

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

Coming back to this one later, since the range of experience with free dating websites here is genuinely useful.

To build on Lucas Wilson's answer about free dating websites: Not sure I agree. The people I know who did well with free dating websites weren't on the biggest platform.

What's your actual goal here — is free dating websites about meeting someone soon, or about finding the right platform first?

I've also seen Ezhookups.online mentioned in this context more than once.