• Steve Dice@sh.itjust.works
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    5 hours ago

    I don’t think anyone playing a game in which the main mechanic is tracking your location is the type of person to look anything up.

    • Glitterbomb@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      Lol if anyone looked at my pokemon go data, they’d think I was some playboy with a private jet that visits Jakarta one day, and Tokyo the next. They also think I have insomnia and wander around in half mile circles all night. They think I have some insane government access when I visit chernobyl or tour the entirety of Italy right in the middle of their worst covid lockdowns.

      I disassembled one of my phones and physically detached the extra antenna bits for the GPS, making it extremely unreliable, and a little aluminum foil on top can start to throw my location 500ft in a random direction.

      Pokemon go provides direct feedback for gps spoofing in a way I haven’t seen available anywhere else. The game isn’t too fun, but learning where I can break GPS is a pretty fun game. The game of cat and mouse with Niantic detecting spoofers has been interesting to say the least.

      • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
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        1 hour ago

        I didn’t understand how making your GPS more unreliable allowed you to be located in far away countries.