Yes, before. When their goal is to purchase bitcoin privately, but now, I don't think so, there is a KYC thing that usually most crypto buyers avoided.
OP is confident with the usage of LBC and it's okay for him to pass on KYC. If he has no issues with privacy just like what we're concerned of, he's okay to continue using LBC.
And they have good customer support and security features as well but not a place to store your cryptos especially if your country is not in the favour of cryptocurrencies.
Just a recent news about LBC in Russia.
Major P2P crypto platform LocalBitcoins is blocked in Russia