 Gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell says that the listings and postings on the website make people "easy targets", and "brings the places to the attention of people who would be prepared to close them down".Increased sexual activities in public toilets (cottaging) due to their listing on the website have caused facilities to close in the United Kingdom and Australia.Squirt.org originally launched its mobile site in 2009 but due to the changes in the gay online dating market space caused by Grindr they released a new format in 2012, which followed adopting the GPS location based technology used by Grindr and Scruff.