As a paying member I want this facility back, it’s not racist it’s personal preference

There’s many reasons to have this filter. It was removed during the BLM media storm. And I do not understand why this is the case. Majority and minority have equal rights absolutely but removing this filter actually discriminated against choice. Grindr is controlling what we decide to filter. It’s ok to choose by what someone likes sexually or are into but not a preferred ethnicity. That’s just crazy and prescriptive. Do the right thing. Let people decide who they search for. Allow Asian, Black, white whatever to choose who they want.

Won’t pay agin till this feature is restored I’m white and don’t date white

REMOVE ALL filter age, body , preference ... It's a shame why just ethnicity ?????

I'm quitting this app, why they keep the filter on age I'm 60 years old, start to be a minority. hopefully, I can keep it secret :-) then when a guy comes to chat and see I'm 60 and not agree with it we waste your time. Just Propose people to hide the ethnicity it's enough to be etic and enjoy most of us. In the meantime, I don't use Grindr anymore.

Why is Grindr not responding to the over 4,000 user votes and 100s of thoughtful and educated comments. Yet, Grindr refuses to listen to its customers. Just wrong for a corporate culture to fully ignore the very people that keep it in business.

Grindr is actively engaged in creating fake 'trans profiles'!

As a member of the trans community, I am appalled by this ongoing behaviour by the grindr team.

Nobody wants your meddling in something you know nothing about. We don't need you creating additional profiles to make it appear that there is a large trans community on grindr. Your manipulation is blatant, and insensitive; and only alienates our community.

Please stop it! Bring back the filter!

I just feel like Grindr a hookup app and people should be able to filter who they do and don't want to sleep with. Grindr should know better!!

Is there really anyone here dumb enough to think that when the filter existed I used to filter out xyz race because while maybe wonderful people and friends I’m not sexually attracted but now that the filter is gone well the world has just opened right up and since I can’t automatically filter and have to waste extra time manually skipping profiles I’ve now suddenly changed my entire sexual identity and come full circle? It changes nothing to remove the filter apart from the usefulness of the app. It doesn’t force interaction it doesn’t bring people together or any other stated reason. Further that’s not your role. If we wanted an app to help manipulate our social views and train us to be just like you I’m sure we could find one. If grindr is changing from a dating app to a social engineering app please let me know so I can cancel. Additionally why is race so much more special of a characteristic that it’s protected from filtering. If race doesn’t define and it’s just a natural feature then so is age and height and weight and position preference and every other option for filtering. Just because racism is an easy term to throw out in accusation that people are scared of doesn’t make it holier than ageism or being anti anything else. And lastly you focus so closely on filters being used as exclusionary and anti a feature but the same filter can be used for being pro something. Maybe it’s an insight into your own personal issues if all you can see is the negative side of a filter. Bitter a little? That chip on your shoulder getting a little heavy?

Grindr is apparently not going to listen to the people who pay for the app and keep it going. Why don’t we make another app the way WE want it? Very disappointed in Grindr seeing all the requests and they sit on their butt and do nothing

It's really simple :

"... If you don't like the filter, don't use it.

Doesn't mean it shouldn't exist just beacuse <1% of people dislike it...."

People arguing against this evidently have a political agenda. And that includes those smart people @ grindr management.

Speaking of, where are they with their wisdom?

As a black man in the middle of the midwest. It's hard to find other black men. When I open the app the first 10 faces I see are white then there the faceless profiles. Oh look more white men. By the time I start to see black men I'm at the bottom of the list. There's hardly any POC’s in my area and I would like an easier way to find them. That is all people are saying.

Okay I didn’t say there are no preferences. You just can’t write off an entire race. When I walk into a bar I have limited people to interact with so there is a limit on how many people you can see. You said a bunch of nothing. Majority of people, including the smart people at grindr that get to do whatever they see fit, know exactly what you are trying to do. Go find an app that curates your little world view. Y’all will stay mad...haha

Comment below me fails to realize that even in person you filter out who you do and don't like based on even more. Someone may move a certain way you just don't like, so you don't approach them. However, there's no limit on how many people you can see. On an app that limits your profile views, not being able to filter against people I KNOW I'm not going to like, that makes absolutely no sense. There are people that are just out in public I know I'm not going to like even from a glimpse. The same thing applies to online and on dating sites/apps. Whether you like it or not, people have a preference for who they do and don't like and it may be based on personality, race, the way they move, the way they talk, or any other number of things.

As for trying to say "not having a race filter forces people to be people," that just makes no sense whatsoever. It's literally taking away people's ability to find who they prefer sexually. That doesn't make them be "people", that literally does the opposite. You may not like the filter, and that's perfectly fine, just don't use it. You may want to meet people of any race, any gender, any age, etc. Once again, that's perfectly fine. However, there are other people that do not want to meet someone over 30 (like me), that doesn't suddenly mean I'm "ageist." I just do not get attracted to them or find anything in common with them. Doesn't mean I'm suddenly here like "OH MY GOD WHY DO OLD PEOPLE EXIST."

These social justice warriors are getting completely out of control trying to force their view on everyone else and acting like suddenly it's "social justice" because they forced everyone to be their way.

The tl;dr bit: If you don't like the filter, don't use it. Doesn't mean it shouldn't exist just beacuse <1% of people dislike it.

Comment below me failed to realize that bars don’t filter entrance by race. IRL you meet all types of people and you choose who you fancy. How can you just go around writing off an entire race? Also, y’all pretending to make it okay because you like black guys is such a tired excuse. I am glad grindr implemented this change because it forces people to be people. Sorry you can’t go curating your existence! No instant gratification. You have to be human muhahahaha!

Bottom line we use racial filters every time we go to a gay bar.... im lookin for my taste and what turns me on... and its NOT white dudes.. no disrespect.. plenty of other white guys lookin for white guys... BUT not me... perhaps make the filter part of the extended subscriptions. Im just sayin... like it or not we like what we like SEXUALLY SPEAKING. And theres only so much real-estate on the phone for profiles... and if its always stacked full of white dudes... then what... Ill tell ya... Block, Block, Block, so much wasted time just Blocking... does this make ANY sense at all. I WOULD PREFER TO FIND WHAT I AM ATTRACTED TO WITHOUT HAVING TO BLOCK SO MANY PEOPLE. Reinstate the feature ASAP.

I only want to see black men! Is that wrong?

But I'm forced to scroll through white, asian, trans etc.

This also uses up the limited number of profiles that I have in my free account ; effectively rendering this app useless.

It's a dating app ; not a platform for social justice warriors!

3000 plus people are crying about their inability to leave their vapid bubbles. Sorry that you can’t limit your world to only seeing white people. There are bigger problems in the world and you are exposing your entitlement...

Another example of a company caving to the media induced hyper sensitive racial bias as not to “offend “ sexual preference is not racist! I think having ethnicity to choose from in your search is much less threatening than having to put in your profile that you are only seeking someone who is of the same ethnicity as you are! I have placed experimental profile text stating “masculine white male seeks same for fun” only to have every ethnicity but what I sought hit me up and even accuse me of being a racist when in real world I am definitely not. I have attempted to explain my preferences only to be called bigot racist etc. you are perpetuating the racial issues by taking it away and you are pandering to a movement that is exclusionary in its self. All. Lives matter just as BLM.

User have the choose to not use it, this is the only dating app that does not have this option, if your so offended it by it you need to not use this racist app then!