If you have ever dipped your toes into online dating before, you’ll know that many sites and apps can be full of adverts.

And if they are not, it’s often because you have paid not to see them.

Just as it is certain that Don Draper will have smoked his 10th cigarette and drank his first scotch by midday, so it is that advertising is a fail-safe way for those companies to generate money.

But adverts mean that you are a commodity, not a person.

You are seen as a customer, a consumer, a digit in their relentless quest for clicks.

restaurants, flower delivery services, jewelry stores, travel agencies, and many others benefit from high ad conversions from dating apps…

https://keyua.org/blog/how-do-dating-apps-make-money/

Here at The Library, we hold you in a different light.

We see someone who is a valued member of a growing, diverse and respectful community. Someone who shares our inclusive values and our desire to create a safe and friendly online dating space.

That space offers an ad-free environment in which to relax. It takes time to get an insight into how other members think. You can do this through browsing their ORs.

You can then choose to connect with other members with whom you match using Stamps. Connections are only made when both members say yes. Until you connect, you will only know each other’s username, age, location and gender.

You are free to chat for as long as you want, your privacy preserved until you are ready to share more about yourself.

We encourage you to take things slowly, and we urge you to buy only the number of Library Stamps you’ll need. The only thing that we are really trying to sell you is the idea that online dating can be different.

Join The Library for today, and get 4 Stamps* to connect with two other members.

*When you verify your identity using the third-party identity verification provider Persona.