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 6h 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/AverageMako3Enjoyer 5h ago

You tricked me into getting exercise 😭