That’s a decent reason to play. So long as you know what data they’re sucking up and selling and are ok with it, more power to you. What’s crazy to me is I live pretty close to a couple of gyms and I constantly see people drive up and play from their cars. Now that I think completely defeats the purpose.
Been clean from this game for a few years now. It’s really not worth it; Niantic just uses it as a geospatial data harvesting tool rather than focusing on making an entertaining game, imo. There’s a reason all their other games have been failures, the Pokemon IP is the only thing keeping this game afloat.
Brings me back to the days of the “Trump criticizes Trump” subreddit. I remember when the subreddit closed up shop when he got banned from Twitter in 2021. I naively thought it was a new dawn for the country. Wishful thinking.
Same, 1337x is right there, why would hand them extra revenue on top of everything I was already sending them? Now they get nothing and I still see the content
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