Starting a thread on what safety precautions do you take before using adult because the existing advice contradicts itself. I judge precautions safety on one thing: most of the disappointment traces back to the ratio of matches to conversations. Same story on precautions sites: you get further if you keep a note of what you actually spent.
How often the same faces reappear collapses as soon as the platform auto-renews without a clear warning, which is the whole problem with precautions. The safety sites case is instructive — the practical move is to use a photo that appears nowhere else online.
For precautions sites in particular, half the frustration disappears once you keep the conversation on-platform until you have met. The honest advice is to turn off precise location until you trust someone, having tried a handful of these — and that goes double for what safety precautions do you take before using adult. If you have been through the safety sites version of this, I would rather hear the unglamorous account.