As per the title, I'm finding Grindr to be increasingly unpleasant to use due to a dramatic uptick recently in fake profiles which are abusing the tap function in order to generate user engagement and funnel traffic to social media sites.

The spam bots are incredibly easy to spot. For the most part they tap you without having viewed your profile, they typically only have one or two photos, they use the same 3-5 bios, and they link to a known set of social media accounts. They also tend to reuse the same photos.

I will regularly have days where I have 2 to 4 pages worth of taps, all from these fake profiles. It's what prompted me to cancel my membership renewal, as I don't see the point to having a paid membership on the app if the majority of the engagement I'm getting is from fake profiles.

I am not sure if the solution lies in better user verification, in limiting the tap function to users who have viewed your profile for at least X number of seconds, or an auto-moderation feature cracking down on any accounts linking to social media accounts known to be associated with this inauthentic user behavior.