Comment Re:If it's free... (Score 4, Informative) 57
Niantic started life as an internal team at Google working on monetising location data. Being a revenue centre was the whole point from day one.
Only the "delivery robots" bit of this is actually news. Niantic being a datamining operation that tricked its users into scanning the real world for it is not. Hell Zuboff devoted a chunk of "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" to it and that book came out in 2019.
