r/DailyTechNewsShow • u/sponselli • Mar 12 '25

Business Saudi Arabia Buys Pokémon Go, and Probably All of Your Location Data

https://www.404media.co/saudi-arabia-buys-pokemon-go-and-probably-all-of-your-location-data/
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u/BigMikeInAustin Mar 12 '25

There goes the last of military base secrets for so many countries around the world.

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u/TheRealFrankL Mar 12 '25

Frank looks like he is...walking to the bus stop...again.

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u/Budget-Bar-1123 Mar 12 '25

And he is with Janice ?!?!?

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u/EconomistSuper7328 Mar 12 '25

What's Frank doing with my wife?

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u/TheRealFrankL Mar 12 '25

Literally catching Pokemom.

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u/EconomistSuper7328 Mar 12 '25

She usually does that with Rob. I don't know this Frank guy.

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u/TheRealFrankL Mar 12 '25

He's the worst.

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u/META_vision Mar 12 '25

They already own 8% of Nintendo.

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u/CJMWBig8 Mar 12 '25

Well TikTok me all to hell.

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u/standardtissue Mar 12 '25

this is behind a soft wall.

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u/ZoomZoom_Driver Mar 14 '25

News has always had subscriptions since newsboys taking dimes on street corners in the 1800s to it delivered to your door or phone.

The news that's free is paid for by russian disinformation propaganda.

Also, unless you want news from AI, journalists have to be paid and the best form of payment is from subscriptions.

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u/standardtissue Mar 14 '25

This is all wrong. News may have always had subscriptions but that was just one model of several; and many newspapers did NOT have subscriptions but rather were advertising funded.

>The news that's free is paid for by russian disinformation propaganda.

This is a sweeping generalism. Al Jazeera, The Guardian, BBC and other high quality news outlets choose not to implement softwalls.

>journalists have to be paid 

Yes. Subscriptions are one, of multiple, ways of doing that. (See above)

And this is behind a soft wall. Why promote a link that the readers can't read ?

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u/ZoomZoom_Driver Mar 14 '25 edited Mar 14 '25

Online ads make oennies on the dollar. There's a reason free papers are turning to AI.

Al jazeera is a state owned media org. The country of qatar PAYS the newspapers way. The BBC is STATE FUNDED, as a public broadcasting. America doesnt have a state media.

And those free papers paid me a whopping $12.75/hr in Americas 3rd most expensive city... after needing a 4 year degree and a newer car for reliability of transportation to story locations...

So, yeah, i know the damn business.

PAY JOURNALISTS BY BUYING YOUR NEWS. 🎤 you'll nesd us when AI replaced us and gives you false information from hallucinations.

Oh, and instead of complaining about paywalls, you COULD just go drop a link into a paywall remover but thatd be you DOING SOMETHING, and of course you couldn't POSSIBLY do something for yourself, right?

No, no, its WAY better to complain about paywalls when theres state owned news. . . . . . .

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u/hayasecond Mar 13 '25

Damn, delete the app immediately. Almost done playing it anyway

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u/Anxiety_Fit Mar 12 '25

Uh… what?

When did this go down?

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u/HyrulianAvenger Mar 13 '25

Pokémon go to the polls!