The fact that we have been around since 2001 under the name GayRomeo and then Planet Romeo is a testament to our down-to-earth approach. We do not depend on advertisers or big companies, which means we can focus on you and your community's needs exclusively. We stand for more than quick hookups when our community tells us that this is a place for friendship and serious relationships as well. It is a great feeling to develop a gay dating app with a team that is mostly gay and uses ROMEO every day. We are one of the largest gay dating platforms worldwide with more than 3 million gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer users.
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Today, we are based in liberal Amsterdam and Berlin, and we have led ROMEO with the same spirit for more than 20 years now. We began as a garage start-up without investors. The community makes us special! From friendships to dates, our users are primarily looking for quality connections. Here you will find everything you need without any ads. Let us know if you're looking for hot hookups. To start we are a dating app like so many others.
It noted that users are also able to opt out of personalized advertising at any time.We will spare you a long text and instead explain who we are in human terms The company went on to “make abundantly clear” that it takes user privacy extremely seriously, and shares less user information with advertisers now than it previously had. Protecting privacy and protecting the LGBTQ+ community is and must be an ongoing effort for all of us.” The issues threatening the LGBTQ+ community are real – issues like homophobia, prejudice, and state sponsored surveillance and violence, among others. “Our users value privacy, and we continue to put our users’ needs first. The issues with adtech are real, unfortunately the WSJ is using scare tactics in a ploy for clicks.” “The Wall Street Journal has run a sensationalized story about the historical vulnerabilities in the adtech ecosystem that were improperly exploited to allegedly obtain data from some of Grindr’s former ad partners. “Victimizing LGBTQ+ people is despicable, sadly it still happens all the time,” Grindr VP of Communications Patrick Lenihan wrote in a blog post concerning the article. Grindr, which says it has millions of gay, bi, trans and queer users across the world, has hit back against the WSJ’s story, dubbing it “old news” and noting that it appears to be targeting the app’s userbase. Homosexuality also remains illegal in several countries, potentially putting user’s personal safety at risk if identifiedīoth the WSJ and Grindr note that personal information such as names, phone numbers or passwords were not available at any point, however details such as a user’s home or work address could theoretically be determined by analyzing the location data. Such practices could have major knock-on effects for users, with the WSJ noting that a US Catholic official was “outed” as a Grindr user last year following analysis of similar data. However, the WSJ alleges that historical data could still be available, including “the precise movements” of Grindr users. Grindr privacy fearsĬiting “people familiar with the matter”, the WSJ says that the information first went on sale in 2017, with Grindr ending the practice two years ago to help protect its users from such rampant data collection practices. The problems meant that third parties were able to to purchase data on millions of Grindr users, to be used for any number of purposes without the users knowing anything. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has alleged that the gay dating app suffered issues between 20 due to a flaw in some of its advertising networks. Dating app Grindr has reportedly been affected by a serious privacy flaw that left the location data of millions of users open to view and steal.