The early 2000s internet where people knew better than to give up their privacy for useless internet points feels so long ago. Someone should make bets on prediction markets how long before we find out Zuck/Thiel/etc buy that data or they get breached and it ends up on the dark web.
this post was submitted on 02 May 2026
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Or it’s for ICE. Pokémon Go was notoriously a CIA backed world-scanning initiative disguised as a game.
man i literally just saw a video on youtube about a guy who used inspect element network tab and found that they store your face in a database to rate you when it could have all been handled client side