Would life be better if Grindr didn’t allow you to take screenshots?
Grindr has been trending on Twitter over the last 24 hours as people discuss the subject of screenshots.To support privacy, Grindr and other apps allow people to send photos that disappear after a few seconds.
On some apps nowadays, it’s not possible to take screenshots of these photos. One Twitter user wondered whether it would be better if Grindr and Scruff fully disabled the ability for users to take screenshots.“Hot take maybe but Grindr and scruff should disable screenshots in the app everywhere,” said @transitdiagram. “We need to dismantle the Grindr screenshot twitter industrial complex.”Hot take maybe but Grindr and scruff should disable screenshots in the app everywhere.
We need to dismantle the Grindr screenshot twitter industrial complex— rhone (@transitdiagram) March 17, 2022Related: 4 ways to reject someone on a dating app rather than ignoring themThat tweet has had over 4,000 likes and hundreds of comments.
Some supporters of the idea talked of how so many people now post Grindr chats to platforms such as Twitter, sometimes earning themselves viral fame in the process.
