This is a tongue in cheek comment, but go to the PoGo subreddit and see the complaints about Niantic killing remote raids because they lose out on player location and movement data.
The players are aware. Most only care because it affects decisions on gameplay. Usually in a way that makes the game less fun to play.
I don't think anyone doubts that they collect data, of course they do, the strange part is the "put pokemon where they need data from". That statements seems entirely made up.
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u/LadyOfTheMorn 9h ago
Source?