Is Grindr making money on bots? They are not making the bots stop, so maybe stopping using Grindr is the best solution.

Every day, 2-3 times a day, get a tap from a fake account that ALWAYS ALWAYS makes mention of wanting a boyfriend or relationship. There are a few stats and the pictures ALWAYS look like they were stolen from somewhere. Why can't you guys stop this?

Since I signed up for paid subscription I'm getting more fake messages then when I had a free account.

I agree got suspended with out any reason on the weekend now's the time that grindr should be shut down with there **** as no indication why with the suspend they want guys just pushing them away

Why this isn’t the number one priority I’ll never know! Grindr is such a joke. Fake profiles everywhere and you block profiles and they reappear. I’m sure more people would pay for Grindr Xtra if there was a way to verify profiles. It’s really something Grindr needs to instigate if they want to be taken seriously anymore. I know so many guys who have stopped using it because they are over fake profiles.

Honestly, introduce capcha, you solve many problems with bots for starters.

Filter by drug user/type of drug/location in filter settings. I’m tired of having to ask each and every individual user whether they’re a seething incubus of meth-addled crazy.

These bots are definitely getting on everyone’s nerves. They send a bunch of annoying messages and have sooo many different accounts. It’s starting to ruin the whole Grindr experience.

Users should be able to report the use of, the request for or the advertising of use of “clouds, meth, T “
But I’ve reported this on many occasions and nothing happens. It’s rife within the app and it shouldn’t be permitted. If it continues I’ll be making a report to police and asking them to monitor it because Grindr isn’t.

There has been a massive increase in the number of spam messages and fake profiles on Grindr. In the past week I have been getting at least 10 spam messages a day. They send a message saying something like ‘you still up. I’m *****’. The user is shown to be offline the second the message arrives. I simply report and delete. Fake profiles have increased too. I message someone and within seconds receive a reply with an image for a website. Some of these are easily identifiable from the elongated profile image. Also lots of men trying to get me to sign up for some web scheduling for their own security. I think Grindr needs to implement stronger I’d verification protocols for its users’ security. IG vérification to non-private IG pages, FB or other ways to verify that the user is who they say they are. For those concerned about people seeing their IG, FB or other social media then Grindr should implement a private ID verification that Grindr staff verify which allows the users profile to indicate that they are a verified user. This will help reduce the number of scammers and other con artists from creating fake profiles and preying on The Grindr community.

well with employers now requiring people to sign a form stating they will not post negative messages on social media or get in trouble people like me have deactivated facebook, and have no desire to start a new one. my friends have my number they know how to text or call. i hate the ads and privacy invasions on fb and the like so no, not a good way. having a code date and color prompt to take a face picture for grindr to keep on file as a reference and someone compares the pics they send/post to verify the sender isn't Jeffery Dahmer or something. at the same time if the are acting criminal then grindr can show authorities their history as a show of support to the rest of us

I get about 15 or more bots a day and it’s frustratung. It’s making this app less and less appealing and I’ve been a paid member for several years.
The bots don’t say how far away they are in most cases. And locals trying to chat that you’ve never chatted with before also sometimes don’t say a distance. You should make it mandatory that there is a picture and a distance on their profile so we have a hope that we know if they are real or not.
I’ve deleted so many, what I think are bot, messages that I’m not sure if some weee from locals or not.

The other thing you should do is send out messages letting us know how to determine if we are chatting with a bot or not. Give tips on what to ask and what information not to give them. Some people are new to this app and the on line hook up world and might be giving these bots access to information they shouldn’t have. It’s your app and you should be protecting your members, paid or not paid ones.

If you are talking about advertising spam. You just need to purchase Xtra for it to disappear. Generally development isnt free so they need to find ways to compensate, if your 18 or over you should be a working professional and not worry about subscriptions.

Accounts need to be verified, the best way of verifying accounts is using a third party like Facebook login.

Faceless on the grid is a different issue but stopping fake accounts would remove a lot of that as well. Some apps however have options to filter profiles with photos only, hopefully facial recognition will start picking up only the ones with a face photo.

stop all the spam on our account or we will go off grindr

There is nothing wrong with my photo I don’t know why you’re rejecting it maybe you have some food approving photos I can show you several photos already been approved but in a way worse than mine

In my area a lot of people charge for services: masseurs, prostitutes, vendors etc. Also there are people mentioning explocitly illicit drugs such as cocaine or popper. I report many people every day, but the’re still there. Why? I hope rules to be truly applied and such profiles banned by default.

Would be nice if profiles were banned for a legit reason. Its aggravating that notit's not. Creating a new account and finding your chat buddies. I need some explanation Grindr

I got banned for no reason

Bots are absolutely spamming the app! Fix this!