The ads on the free version of the app have been ruining the user experience for a while and this should be of no surprise to anyone at Grindr. However, I’m now getting adds with deliberately misleading false notifications saying things like APPLE ACCOUNT LOCKED which are impossible to exit either because of the obscuring of the X out button or not including it in the first place. It is already annoying enough that the ads are totally inappropriate for the rather captive audience but now the site feels like a badly designed porn-tube streaming site full of nonsense pop ups designed to confuse you. The pages you inevitably click through to then invite you to download a totally unrelated app to whatever lies the advert was flashing at you in the first place. The whole experience makes the app feel ghastly to use and to look at.

Grindr is a a New York listed public company and it should not be confusing and/or punishing its users with this slop. The overall impression is that the company must be scrambling for ad revenue at any cost and the users are paying the price and must be ditching the app in droves,

I’m also sure that Apple and Google prohibit misleading ads in their App Store developer terms and conditions.

None of this is rocket science - please give some thought to finding a way to integrate ads that don’t insult your users and doesn’t make the company look like it’s circling the drain.