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Pokemon Go trackers shut down (CNET News)

2016-08-01
Pokemon go players are feeling the rage app developer Niantic has removed a feature in the game called nearby that showed how close Pokemon were to you the feature wasn't always reliable so third-party developers took it upon themselves to write their own tracking apps like pokévision these apps use the same data from the game which made them a better way to find monsters but since the app update prominent Pokemon hunting websites like perky hound have disappeared from the looks of this tweet summer assuming these sites were sent a cease-and-desist letter users from the Pokemon go development community on reddit also indicated that Niantic may be throttling third-party apps one by restricting how often they request Pokemon locations and two by blocking IP addresses where these apps are hosted some angry players have gone as far as demanding refunds from the App Store and Google Play for in-game purchases they made report suggests that Apple is honoring these requests so far neither Nintendo non-ionic have responded to a request for comment
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