Re:Grindr user data has been for sale for years
by nerdjon on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @09:36AM
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Maybe I am just jaded by Grindr (and even non hookup apps) at this point.
But I just take Scruff's words with a grain of salt at this point. There is so much that they can do server side that we can't block.
A big part of me thinks it is just inevitable until something like this comes out about Scruff. I don't want to think that... but we have been burned way too many times by apps. Look at what came out about several mental health apps a few days ago.
The average case is quite bad, but I wouldnt generalize it to quite every app. Scruff, for example, does take privacy seriously - both in rhetoric and in their user-visible design decisions.
That's not to say there might not be vulnerabilities (which could be said about any company or service), but they don't treat it as a secondary priority.
Grindr, on the other hand, is actively malicious with how aggressively it sells and/or exposes user data willfully.