Grindr Account Hacked

[Jun]

s it a paid account? If it is, they have no excuse for apparently ignoring you, blocking you, and providing no means of restoring your account.

It most certainly is not a paid account.

The only people I pay are Hornet, mainly as they have a reasonable subscription offer. Grindr are far too greedy with their subscription rates.

I can subscribe to newspapers for less than Grindr and the newspapers pay people to create content. Grindr rely on users to create content. Grindr would't sell any subscriptions if it wern't for all the free users. They also wouldn't sell any advertising.

I will probably leave it a few more days and then e-mail one of the directors. The reply is likely to be full of lame excuses.

[Gaybutton]

The reply is likely to be full of lame excuses.

If they bother to reply at all. If they do, don't be surprised if it is just a canned reply.

[Jun]

No reply from the helpdesk. No reply from the CEO.
I'll email a few other directors.

However, it looks like regular use of Grindr might have to wait until I get a new phone or tablet.
I don't plan to buy either soon. Hopefully my tablet has another 3 years ahead of it and my phone is still quite swift after 3 years.
Also the AI bubble is pushing up memory prices and I prefer to wait for that to correct first.

[Gaybutton]

However, it looks like regular use of Grindr might have to wait until I get a new phone or tablet.

If it's any consolation, I don't think you're missing much of anything.

[Jun]

If it's any consolation, I don't think you're missing much of anything.

1 Historically, Grindr was where I've met the most boys in Pattaya. That situation has been changing as Grindr deteriorates, but it's still useful in Jomtien and South Pattaya.

2 I'd saved quite a few boys I know to favourites. That's quite useful for knowing where they are. e.g.when a boy shows up as 327km away probably means Siem Reap and so on.

3 Some boys still only use one method to find customers. Just one app, or just going to their bar and no online dating.

[Jun]

Today I received a reply to an e-mail sent on 31 January, 42 days ago. Not a resolution, yet.

[Dodger]

On-line dating apps like Grindr have had their share of hacking, identity theft, and other breeches of security in the past which comes with the territory, but if my account was being hacked without immediate support from the site management I would cut them off in a flash.

I never used dating apps during my holidays over here, but if I did I imagine I would have gathered enough phone numbers in my contact list that the time spent searching for boys on the apps would have decreased exponentially over time. Hell, once you have a large enough base (boy network), what is there to search for?

I spent all of an hour watching them setup the stages at the Pattaya Music Festival yesterday and could have walked away with at least a few phone numbers if so inclined. And believe me I was tempted.

[Jun]

Hell, once you have a large enough base (boy network), what is there to search forr?

New boys ?

Bear in mind that a contacts list doesn't last for ever. Boys move on. Sometimes due to border closures.
Having said that, again, nearly all of my meetings have been with boys I know already.

One other benefit of Grindr is knowing where boys on my favourites list are, without having to keep asking them. I can figure out who is in Pattaya, who is in Siem Reap, who is in Lao etc from the distance. This is helpful for trip planning.

[Dodger]

One other benefit of Grindr is knowing where boys on my favourites list are, without having to keep asking them. I can figure out who is in Pattaya, who is in Siem Reap, who is in Lao etc from the distance. This is helpful for trip planning.

Different strokes as they say.

I always preferred "spontaneity" over concrete "detailed plans" when it came to "boy fun" which I imagine is the reason the dating apps never appealed to me.

Even when traveling during my holidays the fun was always in the chase, e.g. seeing the sparkle in his eyes from across a dimly lit barroom in a strange town before you even know his name...mmmmm...that's what did it for me. Totally free...totally spontaneous...and totally unhackable...555.[/quote]

[Jun]

I always preferred "spontaneity" over concrete "detailed pans" when it came to "boy fun" which I imagine is the reason the dating apps never appealed to me.

Even when traveling during my holidays the fun was always in the chase, e.g. seeing the sparkle in his eyes from across a dimly lit barroom in a strange town before you even know his name...mmmmm...that's what did it for me. Totally free...totally spontaneous...and totally unhackable...555.

However, you are writing that in the past tense. You're settled down with a BF now. So the fun of the chase is no longer important to you. Now tell me why I should be any different.

I'm semi- butterflying. No boyfriend, but I mostly keep seeing a small number of boys again and again. Occasionally meeting a new one.
Grindr lets me see at a glance where many of them are. Also, some are not very good when it comes to keeping their Line ID when swapping phone. My longest running (but not the most regular) boy has had 4 Line IDs in 7 years.
I could re-establish contact via Grindr, or when he eventually appeared at his bar. Now he's in Cambodia. I met him there last month.

He's alway insistent that I have his new Line ID and I usually rib him for not copying the old one to his latest phone.

Another Cambodian friend did not remember his e-mail, his password or his ID for any apps. Obviously gmail account details are essential when transferring to a new phone. We had to do lots of password resetting when swapping his phone.
I've now persuaded him to remember email, line ID and password. He only knows the Roman alphabet after I taught him, with the aid of an app.
If immigration ever deport him, my first option for re-establishing contact would be Line, if he still has the same account. Grindr would be second.