I 100% agree with this I live in a small inbredneck town where gays are still persecuted and discriminated against as if we were in the early 1900's. If I choose to use a mock location to place myself in the city where there are other gay community members why should it be an issue at all? This app prioritizes all the wrong features and can't even function properly. Make it make sense! Shouldn't have to drive 45 minutes away to place myself in the view of the gay community. STOP HINDERING THE GAY COMMUNITY GRINDR!

These fucking people are using mock locations to fuck with people, harass, bully, manipulate and overall cause harm to people. The people whom are asking for this are the ones doing so.
Grindr already offers the explore feature for you to look in other areas while giving the person you’re messaging the ability to know you’re exploring.
Grindr did right by taking mock locations away from scamming ass, no life having, miserable, sorry ass excuses for men….

Karma is sweet when it gets you back for pain you inflict on others. Have a great day!

I agree with Juan.. I lived in a very "welcoming" village.. someone even told them ginder in the pub. Everyone was enjoying it. Now they're using it as a way to show off their bum

No don't lie about your location no one will want to drive to you once they revel your tru location and your 50 miles away what the fuck

There's already enough fake phoney things on here don't allow mock locations number one if they want to have a mock location just get a VPN why should grinder have to worry about it turn off your location settings in your phone if you're so afraid somebody might know who you are or where you live then you shouldn't be on Grindr

One way to implement it would be just "set to nearest city". That would likely stop scammers from abusing the feature.

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Faking where you're at is helping the phishers, scammers & spamming, getting annoying as heck lately, all the while disrupting the millions of subscribers "grinding" their "reality based" motivations meeting other real men. Men who use Grindr for their own profit/promo/income are violating the T.O.S. for what it was designed to be, social meeting for gay men with an emphasis on real life companionship. making the scam/spam profiles harder to be approved and/or alerting established Grindr users of the incoming messages/taps arent typical/suspicious looking for people claiming their connection is in your locality. Us "reality based" users who've Been on Grindr since iPhone 3G came out, who subscribe, tap on revenue generating ads, also need to be the corporations developmental teams main focus.
Other apps started a required verification of being over 18 Years old & actually being identifiable with a minimum 1 clear Face picture wouldn't hurt either. Theres ways for the scammers to work around these requests, but its harder than most Americans will put in the effort to make their profile look legit, even tho its just thirst trapping for some pay website/App.
Three requests....
1. No Mock Location Apps on PC/iPhone/Android
2. Unique Identifiers in Real Time for Verification
3. Physical Proof of Government Issued ID for Americans or those connecting to Grindr with IP Addresses originating from the USA or an United States territory

To those who travel, you can search profile using Explore and connect. Mocked location cause confusion and conflict.

This already exists with explore....

Nope. Sounds like scammer Heaven. My grid pulls in men from 100+ miles away. The OP makes a really shaky argument. Is he a scammer? I suspect anyone pushing this agenda is a scammer. There are too many scammers already. This will make it worse.

Removed

Very important apps

Do NOT allow mock locations! This further opens the door to cheaters, fakers, gaybashers

Explore is already available

No me deja entrar, dice que tengo problemas con la ubicación

To Jones
Although I agree, there shouldn't be mock locations, I did want to just point out that the Grindr app will ALLWAYS show people CLOSER than Google maps; because grinder has locations as the bird flies and Google has locations via actual transportation Street distance.

But back to mock locations I might be okay with it but Maybe only if their real location is on there as if they are looking outside of their area which has already been done with traveling feature. LoL

My problem is that I am not able to register in the app.

As long as the user can be flagged as mocked and limit the areas they can mock in a day, it might not be a bad idea. Though i thought the travel feature helped with that.

There are mocking location apps you can download on Google maps and use that

Why would you want to mock your location and you may appear closer or further than you really are stop with the mock location bull shit I don't want you to lie to me about your location when you send me your location and Google maps says you are 30 miles away when Grindr says your 18 mile away why do you want to wast someones time bull shit are you trying to make grinder suck