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Jignesh commented
Yes please allow gps spoofing
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Jamar Jarvis commented
Yes sire will happen again
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gayman.toronto commented
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.
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Anonymous commented
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
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Ultimate🍑 commented
No
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Anonymous commented
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
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Anonymous commented
No
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NoMoreFish commented
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.
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Tisan commented
Being HIV POSITIVE and having to search through multiple profiles is tiring to be able to find positive people
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Anonymous commented
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.
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Josh commented
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.
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Brody commented
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!!
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Anonymous commented
Great idea. I hate empty profiles!
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HUAWEI. USER. commented
this would never exist, you just come up with stuff that you don't bother thinking about their consequences.
that is just bots encourangment. and stalking by false location.
you got the explore function it's just not entirely free they want you to fully pay in order to actually speak to people. should you pay? No chance in my opinon -
Duesing9210 commented
Itd be great if on your profile there was a non profile listed way to say if you are or aren't okay with people who have hiv. Like... status preference. Positive only, negative only, or I don't mind. That way all of those who specifically are not okay with hiv can be filtered out and those with hiv don't message them and receive horrible comments. This wouldn't reveal a person's status because the yes or I don't care options don't mean that person has hiv, it just means they don't mind chatting with someone who does. Also where this isn't a listed preference no one would be subjected to comments like why aren't you okay with this or you're ignorant or any other hate comments it could just be blamed on an internet glitch or any other number of things. But as someone with hiv I get a lot of hate messages just because I have my status posted and I feel like that deters many from posting thier status. But if people who would be mean to people like me could filter out from that situation to begin with it could all be avoided. Just a thought, I'm sure it could be worded better or tweaked in the actual implementation but there's the foundation. Thanks!
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B B commented
All that would do is gives Bots and the like to exploit Grindr more then they do now!
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Guilherme commented
I would appreciate an HIV filter. I'm more interested in meeting on prep guys than the negatives. Once the other filters are available, why we can't use and HIV filter too?
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Justin commented
I am HIV+, while I don’t have it listed on my profile I do tell anyone I meet up with. I would like it if there was some sort of hidden filter that would just filter everyone who isn’t okay with HIV+ people out and vice versa. Not looking for any fuss because that is there prerogative if they don’t want it or not. That way anyone I do talk to is either positive or okay with me telling them I am.
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Anonymous commented
The amount of guys on Grindr who use this app to harass people for various reasons, only to make dozens upon dozens of new profiles within minutes to continue the harassment. Stop allowing people like this to utilizing Grindr as a tool to harm others or make others scared or uncomfortable. We are supposed to be a community and Grindr is about finding and having fun. I’ve heard and experienced way too many horror stories with self proclaimed “discreet” guys deleting and remaking profiles to avoid the fact that they’ve been blocked by people THEY are harassing or being creepy/predatory to.
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Anonymous commented
Don't send ur location if ur worried about your safety