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Badoo NZ – The landfill of online dating

Used it a couple of times over the years — 2018, 2020, 2023 — just to see if it had evolved beyond being a digital swamp. It hasn’t. In New Zealand, Badoo feels like the end-of-the-line bus stop for dating apps — where all the blocked, banned, and broken profiles from Tinder and Bumble go to die.

It’s full of ghost accounts, fake profiles, and the occasional person who looks like they’re recruiting for a gang rather than a relationship. A surprising number seem tied up in nefarious activity — the kind of people who treat “dating” apps as marketplaces for everything but dating. Scroll long enough and you start to wonder if you’re browsing the underbelly of society rather than a social platform.

Most profiles look abandoned or recycled, bios half-finished, photos blurry or straight out of a mugshot compilation. The active users are few, far away, and somehow all give off that unmistakable energy of don’t meet this person in real life. It’s as if Badoo collected every sketchy corner of the internet, gave it a faint blue interface, and called it a dating app.

If dating apps were a food chain, Badoo would be the pond scum clinging to the bottom — slimy, stagnant, and somehow still multiplying.

⭐ 0/5 — Feels less like an app and more like a public service announcement about what not to download. Use only if you’ve already given up hope and want proof others have too.

Many profiles have fake locations.
So don't bother buying premium to contact anyone because they will almost be in the US or Africa but with UK on headline.
The moderators are not interested in removing fakes.

Badoo is especially based on matching people using photos and it seems many people don't read the profile texts at all. That causes problems with matching, it seems many people (in my case women) lose their interest after we begin to talk and get to know more about me. Similarly, I don't like profiles without any texts. It would be nice if Badoo changes its matching system so that people will see the profile text first and photos only after that and that it is mandatory to write something about himself/herself. I would also appreciate more filters, especially, I want to see the profiles only that have a reasonable text (long enough) in their "about me" section. Or for example, filtering by colour of hair or eyes.

I also don't like that you can pay to be "more popular" and some similar things, that's not fair, is it?

I want to be part of Badoo because I want to search my right partner to me. Respectfully I use different locations to find partner that fits for me that can accept me if who I am,I hope and I wish I will search here my true love who can love me if who I am.I am looking for the right person guy because in my past experience relationship is super not good.. 🙏🥺

this Fake app is Evil whit only fake profiles, dont download it also the toxic addons are very annoying and They wil lure you in with a fake like so they hope you'll sign up for a subscription to see who liked you, and then it's someone from Africa who wants to scam you, possibly paid by them, because you can report them, but nothing is done with it, and they ignore your problems with this app. So don't download this app because it's a real scam.

This is a really bad dating app
Maybe the worse. A lot of people is complaining about Badoo because the block profiles after you paid. Apparently the service is too loaded and can have too many profile. So, they charged you and the they invent an excuse to block your profile. In my case they say I was impersonating someone else, I asked them to verify my identity in facebook where they can see my pictures(with my face!!!) and my name. Funny thing is that verify my identity at the beginning and everything was ok. But after I paid they verify my profile again and then they blocked. I request a new verification and their "investigation" department confirm my profile was "fake" and of course they keep the money. I am fighting for a refund now. They people are scammers

For a free app (you can pay to unlock more features, but you can still use the free version effectively) Badoo is really great. I meet a lot of women on here and it is very easy to navigate the app's interface.
You do get some popups, but they're manageable. Good app with REAL people...not bots.

Interacting with different people across the world..

Great but too expensive

Complete scam site if you don't pay they block your account for no reason total scam site contacted action fraud there nothing more than criminals please do not use this garbage site SCAM avoid report this scam site to the authorities if you haven't already done so needs taking down.

After trying this App for a number of months now.I can safely say that it is a complete scam. Every person that I have connected with is a fake account or bots. All wanting you to support their crypto business or similar. Unfortunately I opted for the year subscription when signing up but I will be deleting the App after only a few months. Do not waste your time or money on this rubbish.

Great dating program

Wonderful exz

I've experienced a lot about the badoo app it's nice to social with really people

Amazing 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍