Has anyone used this website to find a hookup or someone to date? If so how’d it go?

EDIT: Thank you everyone for your responses. I will just try my luck in person

  • @Outset2568
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    1 year ago

    Tinder and any other platform owned by Match Group is just as bad.

    Had a lady I connected with on Okcupid go psycho on me a few months back and bombard me with harassing messages across multiple accounts because I wasn’t replying to her quickly enough on Telegram. I had to email customer support to get them to ban her. They gave me a month of free premium as an apology.

    Premium confirmed my suspicions. Nearly all of my matches were ladies from different continents who were spoofing their location - either to pull off love scams (easily identified when you run a GIS/Tineye search and find out their pics have been stolen from social media) or to find a Western spouse and the means to a green card.

    I don’t bring this up out of any kind of prejudice. I just don’t want a long-distance relationship with a woman who lives thousands of miles away on another continent, and I hate it when people break the TOS to try and match with others halfway across the world. Did a LDR with a Japanese uni student before and she ditched my ass the moment she finally came to the UK on a transfer year. Even then in the event that it does work out, I also know people who have married foreign spouses and have been intensively grilled and interrogated about their relationship by the Home Office. I don’t want to have to hand the British government months/years worth of private messages because they’re trying to crack down on mail order brides.

    Match really do not give a flying fuck about policing their platforms. The platforms that don’t have a website and force you to use a smartphone app are downright unusable because you can’t really do a Tineye or Google Image Search to filter out fake profiles and find out how many Instagram and Weibo profiles they’ve stolen pics from.