{"id":238818,"date":"2026-05-04T03:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/the-privacy-focused-sugar-dating-app-that-refuses-to-sell\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T04:55:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T08:55:23","slug":"the-privacy-focused-sugar-dating-app-that-refuses-to-sell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/the-privacy-focused-sugar-dating-app-that-refuses-to-sell\/","title":{"rendered":"The Privacy Focused Sugar Dating App That Refuses to Sell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.openpr.com\/news\/4498381\/hanker-the-privacy-focused-sugar-dating-app-that-refuses-to-sell\">The Privacy Focused Sugar Dating App That Refuses to Sell<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.openpr.com\/news\/4498381\/hanker-the-privacy-focused-sugar-dating-app-that-refuses-to-sell\">https:\/\/www.openpr.com\/news\/4498381\/hanker-the-privacy-focused-sugar-dating-app-that-refuses-to-sell<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-04 03:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.openpr.com\">www.openpr.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        [Amsterdam, April 29, 2026] &#8211; The sugar dating industry has a dirty secret: the biggest platforms are privacy nightmares built to extract money from members, not help them. ID verification walls, $100\/month paywalls, bot-flooded inboxes, and data harvested for profit. Today, that changes.<\/p>\n<p>Hanker (<span class=\"intext-a opr-li click-to-go-x\" style=\"color:#ed7000; cursor:pointer;\" data-url=\"https:\/\/opr.li\/com\/de445813677d9e99f215d59246d30b68\/\">https:\/\/hanker.app<\/span>) launches as the first sugar dating app built by frustrated members of the sugar community itself &#8211; people who got burned by Seeking, SugarDaddyMeet, and their ilk, and decided to build something better.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We didn&#8217;t build Hanker to get rich. We built it because every sugar dating site we used was a Misleading factory with a subscription fee attached,&#8221; said a Hanker co-founder. &#8220;Real sugar daddies and sugar babies deserve a platform that actually works for them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What Makes Hanker Different<\/p>\n<p>The centerpiece is Hanker&#8217;s Trust Score system &#8211; an entirely new approach to fighting bots and Fraudsters without punishing real members. Instead of forcing everyone to upload a passport before they can say hello, Hanker lets users earn access organically by engaging with the community. Misleading and bots, who by nature can&#8217;t build genuine engagement, hit a wall. Real members never feel surveilled.<\/p>\n<p>For those who want instant full access, optional phone and ID verification &#8211; or a Premium subscription &#8211; unlocks everything immediately, plus a verified badge on their profile.<\/p>\n<p>Privacy isn&#8217;t a feature. It&#8217;s the foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Hanker&#8217;s servers are hosted outside the United States. The platform is not subject to US law &#8211; including FISA, FOSTA-SESTA, or the CLOUD Act. No government overreach. No data sold to third parties. No surveillance capitalism.<\/p>\n<p>Browse free. Message without paying a ransom. Arrange on your terms &#8211; PPM, monthly allowance, long-term sugar relationship. Available on web, Android APK, and iPhone PWA.<\/p>\n<p>Company Name: Hanker LLC<br \/>\nCity &#038; Country: Amsterdam, Netherlands<br \/>\nCompany Website: <span class=\"intext-a opr-li click-to-go-x\" style=\"color:#ed7000; cursor:pointer;\" data-url=\"https:\/\/opr.li\/com\/de445813677d9e99f215d59246d30b68\/\">https:\/\/hanker.app<\/span><br \/>\nContact Name: Paulette&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.openpr.com\/news\/4498381\/hanker-the-privacy-focused-sugar-dating-app-that-refuses-to-sell\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Privacy Focused Sugar Dating App That Refuses to Sell https:\/\/www.openpr.com\/news\/4498381\/hanker-the-privacy-focused-sugar-dating-app-that-refuses-to-sell Publish Date: 2026-05-04 03:01:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.open-pr.com\/L\/5\/L501474153_g.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238820,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238818\/revisions\/238820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}