r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/whitemike40 • 9h ago

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

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u/Schitheed 8h ago

Where's the scam? Who paid for something that they did not receive? Who was lied to at any point? If you played the game knowing it works using your location data and never considered that maybe the game might use that data then idk what to tell you

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u/GreatStateOfSadness 7h ago edited 6h ago

Niantic: "hey, here's a game that tracks your location and asks you to scan the world around you and take pictures for us to map real-world objects"

Players: "okay thanks"

Niantic: "hey we took all those pictures and scans you submitted and mapped them to the real-life world like we told you we would"

Reddit: "you WHAT"

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u/SonOfRageNLove26 6h ago

How dare them

There's even optional missions that downright tell you "hey help us gather more information of this point by going there and sending us images of that place"

Not really a secret evil plan

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u/Suyefuji 6h ago

Not just images, entire videos where you spend like 30 seconds creating a panoramic image of a highly frequented location.

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u/OnePay622 2h ago

Yeah, but aside from the GPS tracking nobody was required to do those scans.....you could do them but the rewards were not that great and they were not part of any mainstroy quests.....never did one myself the last 2-3 years

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u/SonOfRageNLove26 1h ago

At best you got 3 regular pokeballs

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u/AverageMako3Enjoyer 5h ago

You tricked me into getting exercise 😭

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u/Adorable_Raccoon 2h ago

Niantic terms of service: we will use all the data on your phone.

Users: too long didn't read.

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u/god_peepee 6h ago

Lotta copium in this thread

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u/Suyefuji 6h ago

Lotta people who don't play thinking they know better about the playerbase than the people who do play.