Have an account identification and verification so as not to be blocked by a simple statement from a stranger or a malicious person

Sure, it is very dangerous to use such application in homophobic countries like Poland Russia or Iran , showing exact location to the neighbors. :(

I would take this to another level and allow users to be hidden from new profiles. If a profile is new, it's likely a troll who makes 50 profiles a month. Giving a grace period would help. Forcing better verification would help as well. Blocking IPs or Mac addresses of people who have been banned would be best.

Gee, no scammer/spammer/bot would EVER use that... 🙄🙄🙄🙄

Get rid of spammers and definitely the catfishes

I agree with those who say this is a bad idea because
1. If you’re worried about this Grindr already allows all users to hide their precise location by hiding distance information. The position on the grid isn’t enough to locate someone.
2. Enabling (which would be tantamount to encouraging) lying is never a good idea on any grounds except perhaps in the most extreme life or death circumstances eg witness protection programmes. If users have that level of imminent fear then spoofing location won’t be enough and they would be best advised to delete the app unfortunately
3. In particular making spoofing easier would increase rather than reduce the problems and the fake accounts. As some have noted it’s already sadly possible on some mobile devices. That’s not something to encourage because it’s those people who scam and deceive and who undermine trust. Let’s not follow that example.

Yes, it’s a risk owning up to an aspect of your identity that you fear people will disown you for. It’s the risk we take on coming out. If you’re not ready or able to come out I understand. It takes most of us a bit of time to decide it’s what we want to do. But don’t try to make the rest of us have even more reasons to distrust. It just spoils the reputation of people who’ve done nothing wrong if we are a place of people who lie and deceive. It’s an act of cowardice and I do realise some countries have legal systems that are a threat and I have visited and lived in some of them and yes using an app like this there is frankly a bit more of a challenge but it’s not a reason to encourage everyone to give false information.

As a more general point, I agree with the suggestion another respondent to this idea made that there should be a down vote button not just a vote button against all suggestions. This is standard practice on most similar discussion boards online nowadays.

For the avoidance of doubt, I haven’t clicked the vote button for the idea of enabling spoof position reporting. If I could I would click a button to indicate that I actively reject it.

Many users who don’t agree with a suggestion won’t take the time to write a response to express this. Their opinion therefore will be missed. The responses therefore do not give as insightful or an accurate representation of the views of those responding to the suggestions.

Let’s be able to search by HIV status.

And then Grindr will charge you like another $20 a week for the feature.

Yes please allow gps spoofing

Yes sire will happen again

I agree! I don’t want blank profiles without photos to be able to see my profile on the grid. I have so many guys harassing me and stealing my photos. Why should men brave enough to show their face now have to deal with blank profiles. I have been blackmailed twice by blank profiles. I have been cat fished several times. I DONT WANT BLANK PROFILES SEEING MY PROFILE.

Hello, I certify that in Grindr there should be an identity verification with the typical seal of authenticity and also that each profile can vote for another profile saying if they know that person in person

No

I think this is great idea everyone should have their identification checked with a valid I’d and grinder written on paper with the person I’d and then person take photo them self on cam think be much better

No

Search spammers and bots. I have the best free solution. No more minors, catfish, baiters, spammers or bots. Like no more as in completely eradicated. All private too.

Being HIV POSITIVE and having to search through multiple profiles is tiring to be able to find positive people

No. If fake GPS was allowed, how would you know who is really where they say they are, who is being cautious and who is stalking you? There is no way of telling.

Fake GPS is more dangerous as gives stalkers a tool to find out where you are. And if use yourself, it would put guys off if all off a sudden your say "btw, i lied about where im based.

Best option, turn of distance when at home.

A bit if an unusual one. With PrEP now widely available in many places, I've noticed a lot of people picking up STIs due to more unprotected sex. It would be great if people who tested positive to these would communicate with at-risk sexual contacts, but the reality is many don't do it out of shame and the outbreak grows. How I was thinking it could work is allowing you to either save a list of sexual contacts in the app or retrospectively select them from your inbox list, and then if you do test positive for a disease, send some kind of standard or personalised message to them all anonymously (or with the option of identifying yourself) that someone has tested positive for an STI encouraging them to get tested. Maybe allow them to include the disease in the message to allow treatment to be given immediately if needed. I mean there's also the option of adding covid in this day and age too. I work as a doctor and am a Grindr-user; I have seen an explosion of syphilis and gonorrhoea cases in particular and these can be very dangerous STIs if not treated. It would be great if Grindr could someone have an automatic contact-tracing system embedded that could help bring down the rates of these diseases. Perhaps it could be an opt-out system if there's concerns.

With latest update, Grindr now not only collects data from your device but now also records your devices ID which is a random number created when you setup your device. Which means if you get banned for spoofing your GPS there is no way to create a new account, even if you delete the app and reinstall it, trying to create a new account, you will still get the banned message, showing that randomised number under the banned message.

The only way to recover from a ban is to factory reset your device and a new number will be created, thus allowing you to create a new account. It's drastic, but if your device is backed up you shouldn't lose any data. Just make sure you delete the app first.

Spoofing your GPS is easy enough, and it is possible to hide spoofing apps from Grindr. I do it for safety. Even if you turn your distance off, people can still work out where you are. After being stalked and attacked once before, I feel safer setting my location some 5 or 10 km from my home.

Grindr needs to adopt a more intelligent way of dealing with scamers and catfish. Some way of proving your identity, many other sites do it and they don't have all the drug dealers, prostitutes and scammers which Grindr is full of.

I use Grindr on a spare device to experiment and work out these workarounds of using fake GPS and getting around bans.

I'm all for GPS spoofing, but until Grindr addresses it's user's legitimacy with some form ID validation to keep out minors and other unwanted users off the site, people will use GPS spoofing for devious reasons.

I mean, anyone can join using a fake email address and use a new SIM card for the phone number confirmation. So until they sort this out we will keep getting bombarded with scammers, kids, sex workers and the rest of the crap we see on Grindr.

There are better apps wnich are better secured and safer to use. Even if it means sending photo proof of your identity, as well as a pic of yourself showing you holding your ID.

Best of luck!!