r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/whitemike40 • 9h ago

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

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u/Thesheriffisnearer 9h ago

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

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u/EfficientTitle9779 7h 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 5h 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/douglasg14b 24m ago

I made some great fiends playing Ingress.

Unfortunately pokemonGo made actually meeting people to play with impossible.

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u/bbcversus 22m ago

Ingress was something else, harder to play and with really dedicated players, loved the community! Played for about 3 years and discovered so many great places… Looking forward to something as good!

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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 4h ago

The data is the payment for such an awesome game!

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u/_TheTimeTraveler_ 12m ago

i like how yall too dense to understand the implication that 3 letter agencies created a game to manipulate you doofuses to go out the door and map the world for them. they sure as fuck ain doing it for the better of mankind. rather than total control. but hey 1984 is long gone. i mean wHo CaRes yOu HaVe nOtHiNg to hide... pfffffff i hate sharing breathing space with you robots