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A year-old man contacted underage boys on gay dating apps Grindr and Scruff while he was out on bail, a court heard. The teenager from Ipswich, south-west of Brisbane, used the smartphone apps to illegally communicate with the minors when he was on bail for an earlier charge of photographing boys getting changed. Joshua Michael Slater pictured breached his bail conditions 12 times by continuing to make contact with boys via gay dating apps Grindr and Scruff, Ipswich District Court heard. Judge Alexander Horneman-Wren said Slater had shown no remorse for ignoring his bail conditions, imposed in February for allegedly filming boys getting changed.

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Grindr comes in both free and subscription-based versions the latter called Grindr Xtra. The app makes use of a mobile device's geolocation , a feature of smartphones and other devices, which allows users to locate other users who are nearby. This is accomplished through a user interface that displays a grid of representative photos of men, arranged from nearest to furthest away.

Tapping on a picture will display a brief profile for that user, as well as the option to chat, send pictures, and share one's precise location. Grindr was one of the first gay geosocial apps to launch in the iTunes App Store and has since become the largest and most popular gay mobile app in the world.

It is currently available in countries. For its first anniversary on March 25, , Grindr released the app for BlackBerry devices. On March 7, , Grindr launched the app for Android devices. On June 18, , Grindr announced that it had officially hit 4 million registered users in countries across the globe. In August , Grindr released an updated version of the app requiring users to verify their accounts by providing a valid email address.

Grindr says this was done to reduce spam and improve portability. Critics argued it stripped the app of its anonymity. On September 30, , Grindr released version 2. The redesigned user interface brought stability improvements, a new automatic scrolling feature, larger grid images, and a unified chat inbox. Grindr also introduced a new profile field called Grindr Tribes, allowing users to identify themselves with a niche group and filter their searches to find their type. In addition to Tribes, Grindr users can also filter by Looking For.

As of Grindr's fifth anniversary on March 25, , the app was averaging more than 5 million active monthly users worldwide. By , the app was averaging 3. In March , Grindr announced it would be introducing a new feature that, if opted into, sends the user a reminder every three to six months to get an HIV test. It also planned to advise users on the nearest location for testing.

In August , Grindr's parent company Kunlun Group granted permission for an initial public offering. In March , Kunlun announced that it will sell its Ahead of the U. The Android version of Grindr has a substantial number of negative reviews stemming from unresolved technical issues.

The app has a 3. In January , a vulnerability in the app's security software potentially exposed the personal details of hundreds of thousands of users.

Grindr subsequently commenced legal action and pursued software changes to block the site responsible. The site impacted a small number of primarily Australian Grindr users and it remains shut down. In August , it was reported that Grindr's relative distance measurements could facilitate triangulation thereby pinpointing individual users.

In May , a group of computer scientists from Kyoto University had demonstrated to Andy Greenberg at Wired magazine how location pinpointing is still possible even when the "show distance" feature is disabled. The attack model not only works with Grindr but also with Jack'd and Hornet, or any LBS app that shows photos of nearby users in order of proximity. Grindr has been criticized for not taking sufficient action to prevent the display of offensive, racist, and homophobic language by some users.

This discovery is generating conversation about Grindr's privacy policy as a whole. The app is partially or entirely blocked in Turkey , Saudi Arabia , the United Arab Emirates , [44] Indonesia [45] and Lebanon [46] and has been used by authorities in Egypt to track and arrest gay men. In December , the mutilated body of Kevin Bacon, a year-old hairstylist from Swartz Creek, Michigan , was found hanging from the ceiling in the home of a man he met on Grindr.

The alleged murderer, who has mental health issues, said he cut off and ate Bacon's testicles. Several cases of criminals using Grindr to honeytrap gay people, followed by blackmail, extortion and assault have been reported. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Internet portal Human sexuality portal Society portal. Retrieved January 24, April 1, Retrieved May 1, January 24, Retrieved September 16, The Wall Street Journal.

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Mister is a gay meetup app that aims to help the dating Grind grow up

There aren't a lot of cutting edge apps for gay dating. The most popular one is Grindr , but that app is largely used to find men who want to hook up rather than be your long-term boyfriend. What if you want more than just another hook-up? Why can't there be a grown-up alternative to Grindr? There is, and it's called Mister.

Giving up the Grind(r)

Grindr comes in both free and subscription-based versions the latter called Grindr Xtra. The app makes use of a mobile device's geolocation , a feature of smartphones and other devices, which allows users to locate other users who are nearby. This is accomplished through a user interface that displays a grid of representative photos of men, arranged from nearest to furthest away. Tapping on a picture will display a brief profile for that user, as well as the option to chat, send pictures, and share one's precise location. Grindr was one of the first gay geosocial apps to launch in the iTunes App Store and has since become the largest and most popular gay mobile app in the world. It is currently available in countries. For its first anniversary on March 25, , Grindr released the app for BlackBerry devices. On March 7, , Grindr launched the app for Android devices. On June 18, , Grindr announced that it had officially hit 4 million registered users in countries across the globe. In August , Grindr released an updated version of the app requiring users to verify their accounts by providing a valid email address.