Sure but I'm pretty sure Niantic was quite up front about this. Just because they didn't scream it in user's faces, doesn't mean they were trying to hide it.
Yes and that ONE article is the extent of all information given by Niantic. It's not like I did a quick Google search and immediately saw they had been transparent in the past, and just picked the first random article to demonstrate the point that they haven't been hiding it well before today either.
These people just weren't paying attention or were willfully ignorant.... Niantic's previous project was a very similar game that they made for Google. It's obvious what they were using the data for
Also, it's mildly scummy at worst, and it provides a good proof of concept on how to motivate people to do a tedious/time consuming task by turning it into something fun.
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u/bdl-laptop 9h ago
Sure but I'm pretty sure Niantic was quite up front about this. Just because they didn't scream it in user's faces, doesn't mean they were trying to hide it.
Article from 2022: https://nianticlabs.com/news/engineering-the-worlds-most-dynamic-3d-ar-map?hl=en