They changed it for woke points and profits. Nothing more, nothing less. More unwanted profiles on the limited grid is more reason for you to upgrade to a premium account. It's the same reason why Grindr hasn't added a gender filter. We, as GAY MEN attracted to OTHER MEN, are all supposed to want to see trans take over our grid while also putting up with the homophobic "ts only / no men" tranny chaser profiles that come with them.

Did somebody ask us about this change? Why did they thrown the ethnicity filter away, without asking the community? It is a scandal.

Bring back the race filter!!!!

I’m sure I’m not the only one.

Please bring back the ethnicity filter! It's not about racism but about preferences. Personally I'm turned on by Asian guys and it doesn't mean that I would feel any hate or negativity towards anyone else... It's simply my preference, that's it.

Besides also pls bring back the possibility to search for trans girls or couples.

It doesn't make any sense to pay for the service that doesn't really help finding the right partner and just wastes my time.

What is the big problem with allowing us to search for matches based on Ethnicity?!? It shows in our profiles, but for some unknown reason, we can’t actively refine our searches for a match based on that parameter. WHY NOT?!? This is EXTREMELY frustrating! We can search on age, height, weight, position, relationship status, even whether pics are included in their profile, and even whether they’re currently online. But if we particularly prefer Asian or black or White or Latino, etc… We can only HOPE that we HAPPEN to find what we’re looking for! 😡 We should be able to include Ethnicity in our search filters! What’s the problem with that?!?

hey Johnny - you are so right. i have tried writing so many time. but grindr management keep coming with crazy fucked-up excuses for removing the ethic filter with some badass comments.

Everyone has a "preference " regardless of what you (grindr) may think. Having the ethnicity filter allows people to search within their preference. We could complain and say that the body type filter is body shaming people. But I don't see you all changing that. Or that filtering by age is promoting agesim. But for some reason the ethnicity filter is racist? Lets review this and reinstate it.

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Hola qué tal como puedo recuperar mi cuenta de grinder

Here’s my subscription cancellation!

Oh look. Someone changed their name.

I 100% agree that this filter needs to be reinstated. I understand how this can be taken advantage of, but at the end of day, we feel more comfortable with one of our or we simply just have preferences. This filter is not just used to “get rid” of an ethnicity. It used to be able to find people that we can share a common aspect in life. It’s about the connection. We should be able to use the filter, especially if we’re paying for a subscription where all of the profiles (we’re interested in) are missed because we have a bunch of other profiles that preventing it from appearing. This filter will allow for more profiles (the ones we can relate with) and actually not waste our time searching for them. This is enough—bring back the filter.

Merhabalar

Hahaha, Danny Unhung escaped special education school. Poor soul, he's having his minutes of glory before going back!

Holy crap….someone please take away Danny Hung’s phone!

Grindr clearly panders the Marxist BLM movement and the offshoot of activists who blackmailed them to remove the ethnic filter to make and ideological statement. I cancelled my paid subscription at that time. Grindr clamorously fails me as a dating application as nowadays my grid is totally useless as it's composed of:

1. People I can't filter in/out with the ethnicity filter
2. Trans, Cross dressers, Straight men looking for them, MF couples
3. Users paying for the "Boost" session showing up as close as 300 meters while they're 7km away or more

Paying a uber expensive subscription for the privilege of spending the time of my life scrolling over and over and checking thousands of tiles that I would have easily removed with a tap is not an option.

A failed pointless messy product.

What's the point using Grindr?!

I'm basically not meeting anyone anymore and with the introduction of the Boost feature I'm considering deleting the app completely.

Everybody should have access to the ethnicity filter, not only asians or anyone who who is not white because that would be a discrimination based on race and it's no one business who everybody likes, that's undebatable and inscrutable fact of life and Grindr's hard left attempt at social engineering is a con and will never ever succeed in coercing people to go against their desires. The idea that some bad guys used the ethnicity filter "with a racist purpose therefore we need to revoke it to everybody else" that I kept hearing as justification for the removal is pure fantasy and just toxic politics that has divided the gay community further. I already cancelled my paid subscription after the removal of the ethnic filter (and now with the conning "Boost" feature I may delete the application completely but that's topic for another feature removal request).

I do not fit in the 5 ethnic categories you've chosen for us....