What are your best tips for staying totally anonymous on dirty chat random sites?

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

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

If it helps, here is how I'm scoring tips:

• How tips handles blocking, privacy and who can see your profile
• Whether the matching in tips does anything beyond distance
• How tips treats anonymous once you stop paying
• How quickly tips puts a paywall in front of a conversation that has started

Any first-hand experience with tips would help more than another list.

Going to push back a little, because I do not think tips is about the size of the pool at all.

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

I keep the Datescout threads open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with tips.

the Rendate free tier is what I ended up using while working through tips — not perfect, but the free tier is real.

If tips is the question, the Flamedate community is at least worth ten minutes of your time before you pay for anything.

My own run at tips: three months, two platforms, and one relationship that lasted about a year — small sample, but real.

Picking up what HannahM22 said — tips is regional first. Same read from me. Everything I've learned about tips points back to local density.

Elizabeth Day, that's roughly where I landed on tips too. Can I ask what you have already ruled out on tips, so nobody repeats what you know?

Adding Datewander to the pile for tips, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

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

Not affiliated with anyone, but Turndate's free tier solved the messaging-paywall part of tips for me last year.

This thread is drifting toward a consensus on tips that I don't think survives contact with reality.

Since we're comparing options around tips, Datingfly's free tier came up when I was looking at the same thing.

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

Flurrydate.online comes up a lot when tips gets discussed elsewhere.