The war's over, lads.
Privacy lost.
Those all sound like reasonable permissions since the gameplay mechanics require all those things to function.
Why are you even worried? You don't go outside.
Privacy lost on 26 October, 2001
>>55528212
People who don't use iOS shit or stock android don't have this problem. :^)
what is pokemon?
>>55528303
This; ffs people are dumb if they don't realize the patriot act was the death of privacy.
>>55528323
new fetish on xvideos
>>55528278
>Those all sound like reasonable permissions since the gameplay mechanics require all those things to function.
This.
If anything, some of Google's "permission" warnings are beginning to remind me of shit like GMO labeling -- it's just over-reporting that does nothing but scare retarded people. Receive data from the internet? Modify, delete, read contents of USB storage? What doesn't fucking do these things?
>>55528212
That's nothing. It also has FULL ACCESS to your gmail account. That means Niantic can
>Read all your email
>Send email as you
>Access all your Google drive documents (including deleting them)
>Look at your search history and your Maps navigation history
>Access any private photos you may store in Google Photos
>>55528212
>Falling for the Botnetémon meme
>>55528212
>You can disable access for these permissions in Settings
>>55528428
So legiiiit, all of these statements are true!
>>55528428
>That's nothing. It also has FULL ACCESS to your gmail account.
No.
>>55528212
Protip:
Press the "decline" button on permissions you don't need/want, and apps cannot use them!
>>55528428
I can confirm this. Niantic accessed my account and subscribe to tranny porn.
I swear it wasn't me.
>>55528367
>Receive data from the internet? Modify, delete, read contents of USB storage? What doesn't fucking do these things?
Those permissions would be out of place on something like a calculator app.
They are definitely useful, those permission warnings.
Windows Mobile users don't have this problem!
>>55528561
Because Windows Mobile hasn't been updated since 2010?
>>55528495
>>55528504
>>55528525
Really? Go to the Google My Account page while logged into the Google Acc you use for PGO, hit "Connected Apps and Sites" and tell us what you see.
>>55528212
The fucc is with this game anyway? Does it detect when two people who are playing the game are next to each other, and force them to battle on the street like real pokemon?
>>55528308
>install app
>asks for shit ton of permissions
>allow them
>use if for months
>it never tries to access any of things it has access to
why?
>>55528584
>falling for the fake PGO app
>>55528647
Nope, this is the legit release
>>55528495
Really makes you think...
>>55528689
It's called "Pokemon Go Release", fake af. Have fun getting your data mined by the chinese government.
The official game isn't even listed there lmao
>>55528278
>You don't go outside.
We do now, beta uprising begins.
>>55528795
Yup, I'm sure that the official Pokemon Go app downloaded from the App Store has been hacked by the chinese and we're all being data mined. Makes perfect sense.
>>55528618
Shitty programmers. It's a clone of one of the developer's other games (Ingress), which may have needed these.
>>55528212
Isn't this the malware apk version? Lmao
>>55528212
>implying pokemon go isn't a highly successful and subversive NSA/CIA/FBI spying tool
Think about it
>agency needs intel on an area
>put a pokecenter there
>suddenly 30 random assholes are there waving their phone cameras looking at everything
>agency receives this data
>>55528822
That means the version I sideloaded atm has all this shit removed? Wow those russian hackers are so nice :)))))))
OP I have bad news
>>55528822
really makes you think
>>55528856
>there's a pokecenter right outside my house
>and another near the biology research complex where I work
FUG
>>55528308
/thread
>>55528857
Here friend, I'll spoonfeed you:
>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/11/pokemon-go-privacy-security-full-access-google-account
>http://bgr.com/2016/07/11/pokemon-go-security-risk-google/
>http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/07/pokemon-go-on-ios-gets-full-access-to-your-google-account/
>>55528308
My Lloyds banking app requires a non-rooted phone.
>>55528308
>or stock android
Stock android has this feature since 6.0 anon
>>55528212
You want a good answer?
Email their support team. Some people have already and they actually read the damn emails and complaints. Someone for example on /vp/ lived in butt fucking nowhere and recommended some places; they added it a week later.
Email support. Tweeting them doesn't work because they don't pay that much attention to social media
>>55528212
In my chinkphone i can controll those things in permissions...
>>55528905
>what is rootcloack?
>>55528901
>We've independently verified that the game requests full account access on iOS, but the Android version doesn't appear to have the same problem;
HAHAHAHA THAT'S WHAT YOU GET FOR BEING AN APPLE FAG
kys
>>55528905
BITCOIN
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>>55528935
Cry harder about other people's device choices, please
>>55528830
Shitty programmers is the reason but that applies to every app not just this one.
Shitty programmers ask for blanket permissions even though they know damn well they only need one of them.
>>55528955
>
no.
>>55529073
TRUMPCOIN
>>55528929
Something I've never heard of before, that sounds rather interesting.
>>55528428
Only if you sign in with your gmail account. I signed in with my Pokemon Trainer Club account.
>>55529162
I avoided PTC because users are still getting fucked by the servers
>>55528212
and how exactly you had privacy of your phone before? most of the basic apps that already comes installed ask for access to all that
>>55528278
The one thing I don't understand is the need for Contacts access.
>>55529778
Finding friends more easily, how fucking dense are you?
>>55528428
>implying they care about your guts thread photos
>>55529794
Do your contacts show up in-game or something? I haven't gotten past the username part since everything short-and-sweet is taken.
>>55529848
Not implemented yet. The entire things feels like some half finished freshman's weekend project. The only gameplay elements are throw a pokeball at a circle, and tap to attack until the pokemon with less HP dies.
>>55528336
Yes, a piece of paper in one country was the death of privacy worldwide.
>>55529884
You can also swipe to dodge, from what I've read.
>>55528212
>not using a throw away google account
top kek
>>55528689
Just checked mine, all I see is Clash of Clans, Boom Beach, and Pocket Mortys. And even they only have very limited access.
Looks like ya dun goofed.
>>55528212
Mass surveillance at it's finest, these ways are alot easier to get data + they are not breaking any laws with these kind of applications
>no battling to catch pokemon
>catching is literally a glorified safari zone
>no pokemon centers
>no pokemon marts
>all items are acquired only from random pokespots
>caught pokemon don't even have levels
>only way to "level up" is catch 500 of the same pokemon and convert them into candy to feed to the strongest one to make it evolve
>this is how you evolve everything including trade only pokemon
>there's no trading period
>there's no direct battling period
>there's no move sets
>battling is limited solely to gyms and ai controlled opponents which are actually pokemon other real people assign to that gym
>battling is just straight up tap to spam tackle until someone faints
What a fucking waste of a license. I've seen flash games from over a decade ago with better gameplay than this shit.
>>55529921
The Jews are really spinning the dreidel with you, eh?
>>55530080
gotta catch em all though
>>55528212
OP OP OP OP
THAT'S THE ROOTKIT VERSION
THAT VERSION HAS A VIRUS IN IT THAT INSTALLS ITSELF ALL OVER THE PLACE AND DOES ALL SORTS OF BAD SHIT.
It does have full google access but only because it's technically a google app because the big G are involved directly.
>>55528212
no it hasn't
https://twitter.com/moot/status/752564273084149760
https://twitter.com/moot/status/752564273084149760
https://twitter.com/moot/status/752564273084149760
>>55528560
What, calculators don't use USB storage or something?
>>55528689
That's literally the fake one...
>>55530195
Not unless you want to write out a "calculator history" or something. Why would a calculator need to write to persistent storage?
>>55529884
Jesus christ this, it doesn't even feel like a game.
>>55530261
save equations?
>>55529921
>believing other countries matter
>implying the US's shit policies didn't spread to everyone as a result of 9/11 and the "war" on terrorism.
>>55530285
Sure.
>>55528212
Just play Pokemon Emerald on a GBA emulator or Platinum on DraStic if you have a good CPU. Don't waste your time on this shit.
>>55528212
Take your paranoid schizophrenia medication.
>>55530339
Does him being a paranoid schizophrenic some how discredit his argument?
>>55530380
Yes because it's delusions and all in his head.
>>55528618
>it never tries to access any of things it has access to
Because certain agencies, who use these backdoors didn't find you interesting.
>>55530477
How can it be delusions if it's clear that it's real.
Look at that list! What could they possibly need with all of that?
>>55530502
How would a GPS based game work without GPS?
How would you save data without storage access?
How would you connect to the internet without network access?
How would you detect walking and movement without activity recognition?
How would you sell microtransactions without Google Play Billing?
You're just reading a large list and getting scared because "Vibrates your phone" is written as "CONTROL VIBRATION WE CONTROL YOU RPHONE"
>>55530572
YOUR COMPUTER IS BROADCASTING YOUR IP ADDRESS. DOWNLOAD THIS SECURITY UPGRADE TO PROTECT YOUR COMPUTER FROM HACKERS.
>>55530572
Have you made any Android Apps?
Do you actually know what you have to add to the android manifest to get those to show up?
Pro tip: It's deeper than it looks.
>>55530610
Only permissions there I don't think are strictly necessary are storage (data could be stored remotely) and contacts (you could be required to type in friends or bump phones or something).
Everything else seems strictly necessary given the game.
>>55530610
Go on, explain for the class, then.
I'm sure you've seen the new pokemon as well but can't show us because it's on your uncle's secret gameboy 3
>>55530673
It doesn't matter what is necessary, the fact of the matter is you're all dumb for playing this game.
>>55530683
>Go on, explain for the class, then.
Explain what?
Here, don't bother me again:
https://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.permission.html
>>55530750
I'm neither of those guys, but I'd like you to explain why we're dumb and who it's hurting. I'm genuinely curious, because I don't get where you're coming from.
>>55530978
BECAUSE THEY'RE GONNA SELL ALL OUR INFORMATION AND DESTROY OUR PRIVACY and stuff.
I dunno.
>>55528212
http://www.infowars.com/pokemon-go-linked-to-cia/
>>55528308
Uh.. iOS had permission settings before 5.0
>>55531094
CIA niggers are at it again. Thanks for the heads up anon.
>>55529884
It's much more fun if you think of it as geocaching with pokemon.
If it was a full-fledged pokemon title with all the gameplay mechanics (battling, trading, movesets, etc.) nobody would want to buy a 3DS ever again.
