Allow mock locations, please!
If you happen to live in an isolated rural area, having the ability to place yourself in a town or more populated área with the help of a mock GPS allows you to connect with a variety.of people whom you may meet later when the opportunity arises.
I see nothing wrong with using mock locations. It harms no one and it can help a lot. It is a way to meet people from different places. In places where gay people are persecuted a mock GPS may be a life saver!
Why adding unnecessary restrictions and prohibitions?
Please, allow mock locations, It harms no one and it adds usefulness to Grindr.
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rumysister commented
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
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Cezary Ksenofont Mieczkowski commented
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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Dwight Stambaugh commented
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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 -
SarcastiGay commented
To those who travel, you can search profile using Explore and connect. Mocked location cause confusion and conflict.
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Zackary Chairvolotti commented
This already exists with explore....
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Grant McPeetie commented
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.
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zareth Garcia commented
Removed
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Kartik Raj commented
Very important apps
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pup_DSwitch commented
Do NOT allow mock locations! This further opens the door to cheaters, fakers, gaybashers
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Manx commented
Explore is already available
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guillermo lara jeronimo commented
No me deja entrar, dice que tengo problemas con la ubicación
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Lylli Demone commented
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
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World News commented
My problem is that I am not able to register in the app.
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VG commented
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.
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Jones commented
There are mocking location apps you can download on Google maps and use that
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Jones commented
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
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anjel 824824 commented
Though I think mock locations are good for people living in rural areas, it can be abused by catfish, scammers, spammers, etc. I have experienced this personally. I think restrictions or limits need to be kept in mind... perhaps allow a person only to change locations a couple times a week or increase the number of profiles a free account can look up on a day. Or offer a wider variety of membership packages with certain features varying in these packages. Fake profiles are a HUGE problem in Grindr and my biggest complaint with this app.
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Jones commented
Mock location is for stocking people don't do it
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Jones commented
Stop lying about your location if I was to hit you up and we decided to hook up and grinder location showed you not to far away from me and you sent me your location and Google maps says you're further than grinder says you think I'm going to drive to you think again when you send your location we will find out how far you really are don't lye about your location what the fuck it will be a waste of time and mock location is dangerous you can stock people i have actually stalk people with mock location before just to see if it could be done and yes it can you can seriously stalk people with mock location grinder will have lawsuits if someone gets hurt