It’s always about the data.

  • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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    6 hours ago

    Unwittingly? They paid you in-game currency to collect “research data”. What did people think they were doing?

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    10 hours ago

    Niantic always announced itself as a data company.

  • MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub
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    10 hours ago

    Um are we sure we want this data? Weren’t there some people who walked into traffic and fell down hills playing Pokémon Go?

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      Iirc a lot of people also taped their device to ceiling fans and stuff to get steps (to hatch eggs maybe? Idk I never played it)

      So we’ll have it directing people into circles for hours!

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      8 hours ago

      Soon we’ll find delivery robots trying to pull some amazing stunts, all thanks to the sacrifices of some daring Pokemon Go players. Good times ahead 🍿

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    12 hours ago

    It’ll be interesting to see a Waymo or Tesla FSD follow the path of a few Pokémon Go spoofers through buildings or directly across a field.