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Saudi Arabia Buys Pokémon Go, and Probably All of Your Location Data (www.404media.co)
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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 46 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don’t disagree with the sentiment but PoGo has been pretty trash for a while now

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 day ago

Yeah, but beforehand it was just a bad game (i don't play it, but it's clearly popular) but now it's directly profiting the worst group alive. If there wasn't a reason to leave before, there 100% is now.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah. The second they announced it would be a thing, I said "what a great way to collect users data, and sell it to companies. PASS!

I'm known as someone who in general predicts the worst case scenario, and then time and time again is proven right. Even I didn't predict the ones buying this location data would be the Saudi government. I'm not surprised. I'm just surprised there's levels BELOW my pessismistic mindset, and now we're going there.

I never predicted nazis in usa government. I never predicted the usa government would be used as a shadow government for russia.

I viewed it more as "ugh, can you imagine going as low as I think we will? It's going to be bad.....". And now we're sinking so much lower. I THOUGHT we hid bedrock a few years ago. The only big thing I predicted that hasn't happened yet is the second american civil war. I still think it's coming, but now other things are going much lower than I thought they ever could.