Pokémon Sleep, has already surpassed 10 million downloads worldwide. This notable success indicates the app’s widespread popularity among Pokémon fans
Is Pokemon just going to act as a thinly veiled privacy invasion tool?
Pokemon Go encourages you to share your location at all times. Now they want to know when you’re sleeping.
Next app: Pokemon Budget! Upload your invoices to track spending habits and catch rare Pokemon for saving money!
Saving?
I think you mean spending on obscenely high margin stuff.
This weeks special! Catch a Mewtwo by purchasing any two tabacco products or a combined total of one litre of products containing high-fructose corn syrup!
Yeah. In retrospect, I think I was wrong. It would be “save $500 to unlock” on categories where the “50% off” version is still a 200% markup.
I don’t totally understand the reasoning behind Pokemon Sleep needing to be a thing, but Pokemon Go’s entire core premise requires knowing your location in order for the gameplay to even work at all, so I could understand having an issue with wanting to share your location, but damn, that’s pretty much the one case where that’d be understandable.
Next app: Pokemon Budget! Upload your invoices to track spending habits and catch rare Pokemon for saving money!
… dammit, I’d use this.
I uninstalled while reading the EULA, stating that all data is stored on their servers. This includes audio recordings. You aint getting my sleep talking advertisers!
Can’t wait to see what other ways these companies gamify farming personal data.
So that’s where the Stasi went wrong: they didn’t use quirky animals to sell their surveillance
