• Lucidlethargy
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    7 小时前

    But you were fine with Niantic? Why? They were an awful and evil company. Did you never look them up?

    • Steve Dice
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      4 小时前

      I don’t think anyone playing a game in which the main mechanic is tracking your location is the type of person to look anything up.

      • Glitterbomb@lemmy.world
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        2 小时前

        Lol if anyone looked at my pokemon go data, they’d think I was some playboy with a private jet that visits Jakarta one day, and Tokyo the next. They also think I have insomnia and wander around in half mile circles all night. They think I have some insane government access when I visit chernobyl or tour the entirety of Italy right in the middle of their worst covid lockdowns.

        I disassembled one of my phones and physically detached the extra antenna bits for the GPS, making it extremely unreliable, and a little aluminum foil on top can start to throw my location 500ft in a random direction.

        Pokemon go provides direct feedback for gps spoofing in a way I haven’t seen available anywhere else. The game isn’t too fun, but learning where I can break GPS is a pretty fun game. The game of cat and mouse with Niantic detecting spoofers has been interesting to say the least.

        • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
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          I didn’t understand how making your GPS more unreliable allowed you to be located in far away countries.