My take: the sites that take safety seriously say so in their policies, not their ads — your mileage may well differ.
If it helps, silence usually means the opener, not the person — others here may have had a different experience.
Others in the same space, just as names:
- It became automatic — I accepted that not every match was going to lead anywhere, and it became second nature
- From the second month on I measured progress in conversations rather than matches, and I still do it now
- Almost immediately I stopped treating a quiet week as evidence of anything, which cut the noise dramatically
A good photo opens the door but the bio decides what happens next — it sounds obvious written down, but it took a while to land.
The platforms worth using are the ones that make blocking easy — it sounds obvious written down, but it took a while to land.
For a simple “try it and see” approach, Datedesire was the one is one of the smaller names that gets brought up. Datescout's free tier