I totally agree! I’m tired of fake profiles claiming to be “sugar daddies” that want me to contact them on kik. It’s starting to get really annoying. The feature should be like they did on Tinder or something very close

YESSSSS!!!! Except for the 90% profiles being fake. That's total bs.

This needs to be acting on NOW! 2020 and still no real verification process. I don't care about some wanting to stay anonymous. Its a issue when people create fake accounts using other peoples private and personal pictures without their permission, when all there is on Grindr is a email sign up, which offers no way of a safety verification that would put the fake users from doing this again. Phone and picture verification needed, as its a huge safety issue for people who are at risk and who could be extremely vulnerable.

Money should be at the forefront at the cost of safety risks. Even more so since Grindr has been on the news in the past for safety risks.

Why was “new member” removed from profiles? We really need this for safety. I’m bombarded with fake profiles. You can see device ID’s. Multiple accounts using the same one is obviously a scam, etc.

I had grindr premium as a free trial for 2 weeks and really enjoyed the expiring photo feature, it's very useful for users who are discreet like I am, as I have no pictures on my account and I don't like to send pictures as users can screenshot and also I cannot unsend them as a free user. I think the expiring photo feature should be extended to free users as there are many free users like myself who have to remain discreet that would really appreciate having the ability to use this feature

In the past 20 minutes I have outed 6 scammers from West Africa, I won't say how but it is very simple to catch them out. Why don't Grindr put a block on IP addresses from the region, that will stop them getting on the app, well most of the stupid ones anyway. I do report them before they have finished reading my reply as they block me and they need to be caught out and deleted from the app. Grindr should verify much better than they do or not at the moment. You cannot report a profile if the realise you know as they block you and the report option is not available any longer. I suppose I could have a paid for profile that is used just to report them but then I get accused of too much moderator intervention, so I get deleted and they keep my money, I am catching fakes and scammers, not only do Grindr want their members to be defrauded, by keeping the money they are also part of it.

ca ne pollue pas seulement pour les utilisateurs francais ...
il est assez facile pour Grindr de filtrer déjà pour les symboles typiques et mots clés que les mecs appliquent dans leurs profiles

Porque me inhabilitaron la cuenta? Me hice otro mail y tambien lo inhabilitaron. Un amigo quiso abrir la suya en mi celu y le hicieron lo mismo. Que onda? Re tranqui son mis conversaciones.

It should depend on the users preference. If someone says they don't want pictures in their profile then no one should send that person pictures. I report people all the time for send me nude pictures because I clearly let it be known that I don't want to see that. However people send the shut anyway so I report and block them. If these people saw me in person they wouldn't do that... So it's not ok on here either

The problem is that most devices have Dynamic IP addressing. This would affect users that have done nothing wrong.

Please allow for user to submit a photo that requires further steps for authentication. For example, once user X sets up their profile they need to take a selfie with the App requesting they do a specific hand gesture. Once submitted the app will cross validate that the already established photos match the requested photo. This will remove so many bots, fake profiles and endless spam from fake accounts.

We all know the spam messages like from F︆︆︆︆︆u︆︆︆︆︆︆︆c︆︆︆︆︆︆︆k︆︆︆︆J︆︆︆︆︆︆︆o︆︆︆︆i︆︆︆︆︆︆︆n︆︆︆︆︆︆︆.︆︆︆︆︆︆c︆︆︆︆︆︆o︆︆︆︆︆︆m︆︆ and others. Why not automaticly block messages if the content is a spam website?
Or let us by our self make a filter present that **** to our message box. I was paying customer before but since you can’t solve that **** you are not worthy my money.

Alec who did you **** off lololololol

In reality, it doesn’t matter what steps Grindr takes to prevent a fake profile. The truth is that if you can make it they can fake it. Grindr shouldn’t have to be high security. Some kinks require anonymity. Should we have to give Grindr a semen sample too?

Here’s a better idea. Take what you need from Grindr and discard the rest. Don’t put yourself in a situation that is more of a risk than you are willing to take. Or fuck it... take that risk for a change! Where’s your sense of adventure?

I think if you’re that overly cautious, maybe you should just activate Grindr on your smart phone and then view it remotely from the comfort of your favorite panic room. Maybe switch to Chaturbate?

Each individual needs to be worried about their own safety. Share your location and your plans with a friend. Take precautions, but it’s not grindr’s responsibility to keep people safe. You can’t save the world and you might not be able to even save yourself. Would it be grindrs fault if you were scrolling through the grid and a weren’t paying close enough attention to your surroundings and you got hit by a bus? Is that grindrs fault too?

Everyone needs to take their own safety precautions. Grindr is not God and even God can’t keep everyone safe.

Spam messages or profile need a better check. Getting 6 messages in 10 minutes of you’re paying for extra service is not the best way.

You have banned my account for sharing gifs that are completely legitimate because they are on your options just because of a malicious person. Nudes are actually not permitted on Grindr yet you choose to ignore this willingly and just because a few individuals collectively decide to block me I am banned. I was called a Paki before without the person receiving repercussions.

Grindr doesn’t actually care about its users safety, I’m being abused daily by a new fake account and all they have to do after I block them is make another and the cycle repeats

An informal definition of service profiles are things such as masseuse, waxing, or escort, etc.

There is a lot of spam from supposed service profiles (probably bots) that want to just get your online account information and then there are legitimate service profiles that want to provide services that lgbt people may actually be interested in.

Grindr could have a feature that verifies actual service profiles (sort of like verifying a profile photo) and cleans up unverified service profiles that have not requested verification from the app. This way a lot of noise is removed for regular users not having to talk to bots and two if people are looking for services such as waxing, masseuse, etc they can be rest assured that they are communicating to an actual verified person.

The app could load balance the application into two different sets of data the official service profile data and the regular user data. This would presumably help with performance since the main view doesn't have to handle a bunch of spam profiles.

A user's device should be blocked when blocking, and put a **** 15-30 day hold on the email/device used when accounts are deleted. It's really annoying blocking the same mf several times in a 24hr period, cause all the b_tch does is delete and make another profile, delete and make another profile, over and over and over. Grindr is getting tiresome and trashy. Trolls are over running.

The problem with this is that this would be a huge privacy and identity theft issue in the event of a data breach.