Why did you erase or blocked the filtre option related to ethnic o racial type? I always used to looking black men, so it is no possible. I had pay recently, please fix this issue

I want this filter back! I used to love grindr so much when they had it.

THEY DO NOT CARE PEOPLE! JUST STOP POSTING! This thread has been up for almost over a year and nothing has changed! They do not care! And their customer service is deplorable! They think they are doing “social justice” ! When in reality they are losing money and subscriptions!

We all have the right to ethnicity filters to day we are into spanish guys black guys or any other. I am not a person who judges but this is a basic right to have and at this point the app is taking that away from the people

I Live in Australia and I’m Latino I also like meeting other latino guys but there is rarely any in my country the ethnicity filter actually helps me finds guys in my culture I can talk to in my language it’s really good.

now they took away the only thing I could find my own kind it’s not racist to want to see your own preferences sometimes I want to see only Asian or so on there is nothing racist about having your own Taste

Where I live is, there are so few Arabs and Black men. Please... Restore it. It is not racism. It is the kind of men I try to find. Now it is impossible to find what I look for... Please restore this filter. It is so important, because I love BBC. And now... Impossible to find where I live. Because, I even could to make bigger distance to find one.

Based on the comments I feel there is overwhelming approval for restoring the ethnicity filter.. I can choose which age group I want I can choose top or bottom, I can choose height. I can choose weight. What’s the problem with using ethnicity. I block people who are too young and too skinny all the time just like I block people who are too old and too fat all the time. I will take it one step further and say if I go to the supermarket to get a frozen pizza I don’t hang out in the produce section and wonder where all the pizza is. In that sense it’s not very deep. Please restore this feature ASAP it causes me to use the app far less.

With in my ethnic community is a very small percentage of gay men and this filter used to help me talk to other gay men that I could relate to but now all I get are people from my neighborhood that who seem a lil prejudice. With this filter many POC’s can find each other with a click of a button

I’m white but I have a big attraction to Hispanic and Asian guys. I used to be able to search for that but now I can’t.

I spend all of my time blocking and deleting other profiles just to get to a handful of men that I’m actually attracted to. If my main attraction is towards men of various ethnicities why am I not allowed to filter them. For years you had this feature I don’t understand why it was removed. I’m wasting so much time on the app because of this

Being as gay and Living in Asian country is not easy where there is no or zero tolerance against gays. Also we are being hated by community and also other races within gay community here. You’re limiting our chance to meet or socialise with my own race gays. This is next level stress to LGBT community In asia. Instead helping and supporting us you’re giving us hard time on top of usual discrimination within my own country. Request you to restore the feature. We are overwhelmed with too much stress depression; we need to meet our own race gays. Grindr stop your drama and Let us live the life please

“Yes they are being racist some of them.

I get I hate foreigners. I only like Koreans, no foreigners.

I hate fat guys okd guys. One guy wrote, if you are old, don’t message, go kill yourself“

Hate speech is it’s own category in reporting/blocking.

Now we’re moving to “sometimes”.

How are you so naive that you don’t realize these filters do nothing to incite racist, hateful comments?

After getting the same nude barrage sent to my phone by someone I’ve blocked multiple times, they just make new accounts and don’t care if they’re creeping you out.

So filters either keep us “racists” from being instigated in the first place. Or they keep the same people who refuse to take no for an answer from harassing us to begin with. Dev does temporary bans at most.

So if it’s the 9th times this year you’ve made a new account to contact me, as if “sorry not interested” wasn’t enough now I’m the racist for telling them to go ****** die?

Just an example. It’s a privacy issue and makes the app much more enjoyable, with far less bs racist comments because people can have preferences, and then not be messaged by people who fall outside that.

I don’t go texting my straight guy friends hitting on them. I keep to myself mostly.

You lose the right to message people if you don’t have your basics listed. Ethnicity, body type and age. They’re not racist for not being interested now that your lie is out in the open.

You need to fill out your profile. It’s a dating app not a free porn site account membership. Just the basics. One picture helps too.

Sounds to me like most of you against this went *looking* to piss people off and accuse them of being racist.

Irony is if the filters still existed you wouldn’t even be able to see their profiles.

Yes they are being racist some of them.

I get I hate foreigners. I only like Koreans, no foreigners.

I hate fat guys okd guys. One guy wrote, if you are old, don’t message, go kill yourself

“ You all are entitled to your opinions on your own preferences. But that is just what they are....opinions. Based upon some of the logic here, there should not be any filters as filters are discriminating based upon whatever factor it is designed to filter. As someone who has previously paid for Unlimited, I have not renewed my subscription until I find value of some of these features including these filters including ethnicity as well as some others being discussed. Failing to implement these filters in a timely manner will show that Grindr does not value its paying customers who will then decide to possibly look at other alternatives.”

So you’ve never used another dating app online then? Because filters are NEVER going anywhere. Grindr got rid of a function that every. Single. Dating app has.

Anyone against this must be withholding their ethnicity by intentionally not having detailed profiles.

Why? Because no ones paying $40 a month to advertise a “mystery”!

In the real world our eyes are our filters. There aren’t people walking around in black sheets asking you for your d size and for more pics.

Even tinder allows you to be open about where you are in the spectrum. If you refuse to have a profile then guess how often you get matched?

Either never or only by desperate people. I’m so sick of clicking one of the many blank, or might as well be blank, profiles only to either have no ethnicity listed or no stats. Not even what they’re looking for.

With the filters I actually spent more than 10 minutes on the app before logging out. Why?

Because I know what I’m into, it’s not racist and if you think so you’re both a sexist and a sociopath. Or really uneducated when it comes to dating.

So let that be your problem and let me pursue what I want. You have your choices still. If that’s so bad go join Tinder or Scruff and watch how the world should work.

I see a lot of complaints about how retarded or petty removing f a category filter (based on something that never existed until the Euro colonization of the New World), but yet they don't seem to see it's even more petty that to make it a big issue

Bring it the fuck back it’s none of your business which race I choose!

I can certainly see where someone might see this as racist however I would ask that person or persons to sleep with a white, black, Asian, middle eastern guy. Do you prefer one over the other? If not, you are aware of a human beings attraction to things? A guy might like big breasts or a hairy body? Why? We don’t know why? The human race has yet to discover the intricate processes of the brain that explain physical attraction. Race is one category and although, yes, some people might prefer or not prefer a person of a certain ethnicity because of ignorance which is taught or a product of their environment, but to say that everyone who has an ethnicity preference is racist insulting and frankly exhibiting the very behavior you seek to condemn. Taking the filter off is ultimately limiting my convenience to choose abd be more proficient in my search, I’ll go where I can use one. If you are so hurt by the filter being there and used by persons if whom you know nothing, get over it! People like what they like, and there are people out there that will search for someone just like you, but someone who loves themselves and knows that everyone has differences and accepts the fact that those differences have nothing to do with you or your race.

This is the most hurtful thread to read. I question the upbringing of these people justifying the need for a racist filter. Nothing is stopping you all from continuing to be racist, you still have a choice to block POCs or ignore them. You don’t need a filter for that. Adding this filter only makes it easier to enable racists. The world questions our sexual liberation anyway as queer folk. They don’t need to also start seeing us as a community that enables racism. Race based exclusion is not a preference, you lack exposure and education. The onus is on you all to educate yourself. Not others to enable your behaviour that stems from what you all lack.

Please allow us to filter by country-of-origin! I live near the Canadian border, which has been closed for a year now. And 90% of my grid is comprised of Canadians. It's making my Grindr useless...

Anyone who thinks being able to filter by race is "racist" is a damn idiot. Using this theory, everyone should be attracted to everyone else then. No need to pick a type! Everyone's your type! Yay! Old is attracted to young. Young is attracted to old. Short is attracted to tall. Tall is attracted to short. Skinny is attracted to fat. Fat is attracted to skinny. Tops are bottoms. Bottoms are tops. It's a damn grab ass fest out there!