I think it means to the file system. As in they only ever exist inside the browser sandbox in memory. This should be completely safe.

So you don't have to download them and drag to the browser. It requests the data and processes it in the browser environment.

It asks you to scan poke stops for some kind of reward. So I'm assuming it's a big part of it.

Presumably they know what the poke stop is and can use this in their models. Like near me one is church and the other is the village hall.

As did literally every other president for the last 40+ years. Now you've elected Trump instead. Smart.

Nah words have meaning. I get you don't like it but that doesn't make it spyware or malware.

Spyware isn't about watching your system or memory it's about stealing personal information.

These anti cheats specifically comply with privacy laws or they wouldn't be allowed. You won't find any breaking any laws.

Anti virus and anti malware applications do the same. Doesn't make them spyware.

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Why would they want that? Are there any cases of it being abused?

You're never going to have to worry about it. If you won the lottery every week you wouldn't be close to what these people have.

Your labour value is already massively capped by the super rich. You earn a fraction of what you produce for others.

Machine learning is just a specific field in AI. It's all AI. Anything that attempts to mimic intelligence is.

All the things you mentioned are neural networks which are some of the oldest AIs.

It's a problem for users.

I'm afraid it won't last long without it. That's the key problem.

People hate ads, as do I, but what's the alternative?

Always a nice nostalgia trip when aol or msn links show up lol

People are regularly murdered in schools. It doesn't change anything.