Here's why Niantic Labs shut down third-party Pokemon trackersNiantic Labs CEO, John Hanke, posted an update on the company's Pokémon Go news page explaining why the company decided to block third-party developers from accesing the game's servers to create Pokémon tracking apps and websites:
We were delayed in [rolling out Pokémon Go to Latin America] due to aggressive efforts by third parties to access our servers outside of the Pokémon GO game client and our terms of service. We blocked some more of those attempts yesterday. Since there has been some public discussion about this, we wanted to shed some more light on why we did this and why these seemingly innocuous sites and apps actually hurt our ability to deliver the game to new and existing players.
Hanke also noted that the cost of allowing data scrapers access to their servers affected gameplay at all levels.
In addition to hampering our ability to bring Pokémon GO to new markets, dealing with this issue also has opportunity cost. Developers have to spend time controlling...
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Here's why Niantic Labs shut down third-party Pokemon trackers
