Pokémon Sleep, has already surpassed 10 million downloads worldwide. This notable success indicates the app’s widespread popularity among Pokémon fans

  • @Zozano@aussie.zone
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    610 months ago

    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!

      • @Zozano@aussie.zone
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        210 months ago

        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!

        • conciselyverbose
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          310 months ago

          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.

    • all-knight-party
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      210 months ago

      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.

    • @naqahdah@my.lserver.dev
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      110 months ago

      Next app: Pokemon Budget! Upload your invoices to track spending habits and catch rare Pokemon for saving money!

      … dammit, I’d use this.

  • tripplehelix
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    510 months ago

    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!

  • daredevil
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    310 months ago

    Can’t wait to see what other ways these companies gamify farming personal data.

  • @germanatlas
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    110 months ago

    So that’s where the Stasi went wrong: they didn’t use quirky animals to sell their surveillance