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there are a lot of reasons why grindr would not want to do that. grindr is not tinder and it's not okcupid a BIG part of the service is providing psuedonymity to it's users. attitudes about homosexuality in the us and especially internationally make it a pretty significant liability for a service to start 'outing' people. if you can be ID'ed in the US you can be ID'ed in singapore or chechnya. and even besides that there's a great degree of cultural complexity at play and even in 'tolerant' places many men are discreet because they don't want to be branded as a fag. if i ran grindr i would've made the same call