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submitted 6 days ago by 007ace@lemmy.ca to c/gaming@lemmy.ml

We've been playing as a family since it first came out, but they've definitely slowed... I still haven't gotten all my 100iv shinys so I'm still collecting.

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[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 33 points 6 days ago

it's now known the game is bait to train israeli ai weapons.

i dunno, makes me wary of playing it and erases all the excitement.

[-] ItJustDonn@slrpnk.net 6 points 6 days ago

i agree with you and stopped a few years ago for similar wariness

i also had a half-baked thought: there have been videos showing players using spoofed gps to play for years. how difficult would it be to spoof camera and gyros (earns you bonuses in-game to scan points of interest) in addition to gps, as a "catch your mons, give the ai bogus intel" sort of affair?

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml -2 points 6 days ago

eh, android and ios are closed down surveilled platforms by default.

[-] artyom@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago

Not true. It's very easy to spoof your location in Android.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

it's also probably very easy for them to know you are spoofing location.

heard of a lot of banwaves from people doing that on pokemon go.

[-] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I only see that the data was given to delivery robot developers. What's this other use?

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