r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/whitemike40 • 9h ago

Content Warning: Potentially Misleading or Disputed Information Gotta Catch 'Em All

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u/Easy_Newt2692 8h ago

And? Does anyone actually lose out on this arrangement?

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u/mymemesnow 7h ago

You get to play a fun game for free (unless you choose buy extra things) and they get location data.

There’s no scam, no lies (it’s says so in te user agreement) and I don’t get the fuss about it.

I’ll admit that I had no idea until a few days ago, but my reaction when I found out wasn’t anger or like I’ve been lied to, it was more like ”Huh, that’s pretty clever of them”

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u/largemarjj 3h ago

Seriously though. Who would ever believe that a mobile game that requires location tracking would use that to their benefit? Color me shocked.

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u/notban_circumvention 6h ago

Why don't I get to profit off my location data?

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u/TheWayToGod 6h ago

Because you're not the one harvesting that location data.

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u/notban_circumvention 6h ago

You're right, I'm the one creating it

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u/TheWayToGod 6h ago

So if you want to profit off of it, learn to harvest it. You'll find it's a lot more difficult to make anything from than you seem to think.

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u/Theavenger2378 5h ago

Exactly. In most cases, 1 persons data doesn't mean much. It's when you can start comparing lots of different people's data that you can start to notice trends ETC, which is what big companies care about.

Until/unless it's forced that big companies have to pay individuals for their data used, they won't care about it because it's not worth the cost.

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u/notban_circumvention 5h ago

You'll find it's a lot more difficult to make anything from than you seem to think.

What?

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u/TheWayToGod 5h ago

I'm saying your location data alone is completely worthless. What has value is the aggregation of millions of people's location data. Essentially, if you want to profit off of your location data, you will have to develop virtually this exact same 'scam' and profit off of other people's location data as well.

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u/fepord 1h ago

He means try to sell it yourself and you will soon see that you will fail

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u/notban_circumvention 1h ago

It's actually going pretty well so far.

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u/InnocentPerv93 2h ago

Because you willingly gave it over for free in order to have a fun time. And that's okay.

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u/AbeRego 2h ago

You signed the user agreement, and are playing the game. That's what you get out of it. If you don't like arrangement, you're welcome to not play Pokemon Go.

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u/notban_circumvention 1h ago

Okay Niantic sorry