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by frozenlettuce 482 days ago
My headcanon is that Pokemon Go is a bad game on purpose. Intelligence agencies get the geolocation data (that has been proved already) and Nintendo gets the rights to publish regular games - this way they are not competing directly with the franchise owner.

- Niantic itself bragging about it https://nianticlabs.com/news/largegeospatialmodel?hl=en