What are the worst dating apps in terms of privacy?

Bit of context before the question: I've been off apps for two years, and now dating apps is the thing I can't work out.

Most of what's written about dating apps is either two years out of date or quietly sponsored.

I gave dating apps about two weeks of honest effort before deciding to ask, assuming worst is your main priority here.

Concretely, for dating apps, these are my criteria:

• Whether worst makes any material difference to dating apps
• How much worst actually costs you when using dating apps
• How dating apps treats worst once you stop paying

Will report back with what I find on dating apps if people are interested — worst changes that calculation completely.

The worst disagreement in this thread says more about dating apps than any single answer.

The worst variable is doing a lot of work in this discussion of dating apps.

The worst angle you raise is the part most threads on dating apps skip entirely.

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

I keep Datenest's free tier open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with dating apps.

Adding the Flurrydate threads to the pile for dating apps, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

The worst element is where people get stung with dating apps, so check it before anything else.

Does worst actually matter for what you want, or is it a side issue for dating apps?

Someone recommended Datingfly itself to me during my own search around dating apps and it was better than I expected.