Saudi Arabia Buys Pokémon Go, and Probably All of Your Location Data
Saudi Arabia Buys Pokémon Go, and Probably All of Your Location Data
A company owned by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund just bought the most popular AR video game of all time.
Unpaywalled: https://archive.is/7yc9S
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I am a level 47 player, altho havent played the game for several months now due to its downfall. Guess, wont be going back
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But you were fine with Niantic? Why? They were an awful and evil company. Did you never look them up?
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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.
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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.
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I didn't understand how making your GPS more unreliable allowed you to be located in far away countries.
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I thought the break would suggest two separate ideas, but in a sense it does help. Some spoofing can start 'rubber banding' between the spoofed location and the actual location, and if youre spoofing 1000 miles away, thats an insant soft ban. but if your phone never gets a proper fix on like 5 GPS satellites, you won't rubber band.
I mostly used the damaged GPS phone to idly increase walking distance. If I set it to charge in a basement my character just bounces all around the outside of the house and I can wake up to a cool 10km walked. There's better options for fake walking though.
If you're interested in GPS spoofing, you can find a wealth of information by searching for 'gps spoofing' with 'pokemon go' tacked on the end. It takes an idea that otherwise makes you sound like a paranoid person and turns it into just cheating at a videogame.
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