I've been using PMF for just over a year now. Not once have I used a dedicated email address to sign up. Every time I jump onto the site I have provided my sign up credentials with a fake identity along with a made up email address.
You don't need your email address to be verified in order to browse through the majority of fake accounts. It's worthwhile to use a smartphone here... And hop onto your app store and download the free "via" browser. You'll be able to unblur the images on profiles by pressing down on the blurred image for a few seconds... Then you'll select picture mode which will automatically unblur those images.
I would never upgrade for a premium account. Keep everything on your part fake.. Except that one picture which doesn't expose your face, a d1ck picture is perfect. What I've been doing is taken note of a profile's name and picture along with their location.
I've met some girls using this practice. But pmf don't make it easy as their list of locations, dependent on your postcode don't come together too well. For instance once I enter my postcode, I'm greeted with a list of locations with some I've never heard of before. my town is never listed, instead I'm coming across areas little villages/hamlet's etc.
Take Scotland for example. If an account specifies "Dubford" grampian. you can guess that they live in "Banff" Aberdeenshire. Or if the location is "Arbirlot" you can guess its arbroath. Another thing to mention too is that alot of the profile's use ridiculous names. Nobody seems to use their own first name unless they have actually provided their real email address and have registered for a premium account. But even then you'll come across name's like cleo, Collins, janta, Nora, nello, hadrio, lizza, lol... these are not scottish names and these profiles are typically fake. Even when I find someone on Facebook that has a pmf profile they always state that they didn't create a profile with pmf. But did on another site linked to pmf. Some remind me that they hadn't created an account full stop.
PMF is the biggest pile of **** I've ever encountered on a dating site. It has a great concept... but you'll probably end up paying for nothing. Sometimes after winking or liking a profile you'll get messages from that profile almost immediately. And while we can't view the entire message you'll still see the first two words of a message that you've been sent. You'll be sent messages that start with ... "Peanuts or crisps" or "heaven or hell" it's actually really funny.
Stay well away. And stick to plenty of fish instead or even tinder.