A Boring Dystopia

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[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 87 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I feel like, if they were being thorough, they would've mentioned the game that came out before PoGo, Ingress, that populated most of the initial points of interest.

[–] gedfromgont@piefed.ca 29 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Sure, but nobody knows what "an ingress" is but almost everyone has heard of Pokemon. I'd also assume the size of the player base is not comparable.

[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Not by a long shot even at Ingress' peak.

Still, I think the location scanning isn't as valuable as the pathing data they've been collecting. Besides, Google Maps has images of the majority of these scans anyway. But walking path data from millions of players for years is valuable for routing delivery paths.

[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

But walking path data from millions of players for years is valuable for ~~routing delivery paths~~ corralling civil unrest.

FTFY. Crowd control.

[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Eh, I think its exppress purpose is delivery bots, and authoritative control is a happy accident. I'm cynical enough to see it foremost as corporate greed.

[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 days ago

We live in a country that Ring advertised mass surveillance systems as a Superbowl ad for finding lost dogs.

Delivering food has never been about food. It's extremely unprofitable. It's always been about normalizing and optimizing oppressive systems of gig work; and destroying the ability of the working class to face their bosses or even their coworkers.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

Google maps has images of streets, they don’t have images of the middle of a park or the middle of a Hospital lobby.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I did actually play a bit of Ingress back in the day. I was one of two players in my entire neighborhood. Was never interested in PokemonGo tho. I think anything Pokemon is straight ass nowadays.

[–] RichardNixos@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

Best Pokemon right now is Celia's Stupid Romhack

[–] ark3@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

fyi you can game these scans pretty easily at least in ingress
record the ground while moving the phone from time to time just so that the video is not too static