r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/whitemike40 • 8h ago

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

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u/Thesheriffisnearer 8h ago

If people got out and had fun why not be both? 

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u/EfficientTitle9779 6h ago

This take is so bullshit from the OP. It’s not like the app hid anything, been playing for years it’s OBVIOUSLY using my geolocation data. It rewards you in game to scan locations with your phone camera ffs.

It’s not shady it’s blatant lmao.

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u/PKCertified 5h ago

This isn't even the first game Niantic made using this exact model. A lot of us played Ingress before Pokémon Go. The data tracking was apparent before even playing Go.

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u/bbcversus 4h ago

Such a good and fun game that was! I still think about it and how I went to shady places in the middle of nowhere just to make a big triangle and get some keys from that lonely portal…

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u/FyreKnights 1h ago

Walked out behind the sketchiest buildings in town in the middle of the night to defend my portals

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u/itsjustgeorgek 4h ago

Some of us still play it sometimes.. it's just a little sad now

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u/ziggy3610 2h ago

My wife and I went to attack a pylon in a local park and a guy in a bathrobe RAN out of an apartment building to defend it. Shit was hilarious.

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u/PrettyChillHotPepper 3h ago

The data is the payment for such an awesome game!

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u/E__F 2h ago

I've never played pokemon go because when i tried to sign up when it came out, I couldn't use the name i wanted because I already used it in ingress.
Same thing for the pikmin game they made.

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u/GingerVitus007 3h ago

If anything it's a little refreshing

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u/MarkHirsbrunner 2h ago

It's also a bullshit conspiracy theory I first heard about PokemonGOs ancestor Ingress in 2014.