My rule for ensure privacy now is simple: check how precise the filters really are on day one.
Ran that one alongside two other options for a month, tracking whether the sorting can be trusted.
Worth separating what ensure privacy promises from what it delivers after week one.
Out of roughly 100 matches on that one, 4 turned into an actual conversation.
I would judge the site on how the scam scripts get filtered rather than on the feature list.
The most useful filter on the platform was recent activity, not distance, and it changed whether you can hide your location convincingly completely.
Does anyone know whether ensure privacy changed this recently?
My rule for ensure privacy now is simple: check how precise the filters really are on day one.
Ran that one alongside two other options for a month, tracking whether the sorting can be trusted.
Agree with BruceLee88, though ensure privacy was a bit worse in my case.
I kept notes for a month on the platform because I kept losing track of how the platform handles repeat offenders.
Curious whether anyone else found the same thing with ensure privacy.
Given how where the paywall really kicks in behaves, I would only recommend it to someone with patience.
The reason I stopped recommending some of these is how anonymous you actually stay in practice.
Once I fixed my filters, how the platform handles repeat offenders stopped being the bottleneck on the app.
The short checklist I use before trusting anything like ensure privacy:
Happy to go into more detail on ensure privacy if it's useful.
Going to push back on Megan Walsh here. That wasn't my experience of ensure privacy at all.
It worked in a large city and collapsed forty miles out, mostly because of whether photos can be traced back to you.
Where ensure privacy stands or falls is how granular the visibility controls get.
The first message is where the site either works or stops working, regardless of whether the algorithm is doing anything useful.
Same experience, right down to how much data leaves the app.
Reply rate on the platform roughly doubled once I stopped leading with a compliment, though what the platform can see that you can't never budged.
Is ensure privacy still like this, or has it improved?
The closest alternative I found was datingfly.online.
What separates ensure privacy from the rest of the field is whether the search actually respects what you set.
Gave the platform a fair run over 3 weeks and kept coming back to whether the filters survive a refresh.
If your area is thin, the app will not fix that, whatever whether the rules get applied evenly looks like.
The thing nobody mentions about the site is how much data leaves the app.
What I would look at, in order, for ensure privacy:
Ended up splitting my time between this and Datedesire if you want a smaller pool.
My first week on ensure privacy looked promising; by the second I was only really watching what a search of your username turns up.
Someone in another thread pointed me at the Turndate boards and it was a fair shout.
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