Na een aantal hele leuke en creatieve manieren om een beetje te cheaten met Pokémon Go, als het plakken van je telefoon aan een waaier, of aan je hond is het nu serieus geworden. Want door middel van GPS Spoofing is het mogelijk om nu van achter een PC met wat simpele handelingen grote voordeel uit de game te trekken en uiteraard proberen mensen hier geld aan te verdienen en promoten hun 'diensten' nu via websites en Twitch die hier uiteraard niks aan doen. Het hele verhaal kan je hier lezen en een klein stukje met video hier onder vinden.

Others go a cheaper route, instead spending on in-game currency to buy Incense, which spawns Pokémon around them from the comfort of their own home.

But many more are cheating. Instead of going outside and hoofing it from Pokéstop to Gym to Pokémon, like the tens of millions playing the game worldwide, they're resorting to tricking the game by using GPS spoofing software, which makes the game think the player is at a location of their choosing, to move their character from the comfort of their own homes.

It's pretty clear that GPS spoofing gives players an unfair advantage. They're able to teleport to anywhere in the world, reaching prime farming locations instantly, jumping to rare nests of Pokémon in a flash. Twitch partner arulive even advertises farming locations scattered across the globe, like a Dratini nest and hotspots in Sydney, Australia and Düsseldorf, Germany. Cheaters can hatch eggs faster using their keyboard than a human running on their legs or even driving a car.

Twitch has banned some of the more obvious offenders, like a user called "superpokecheat" who blatantly advertised the service, but many others, including a number of Twitch partners, who can earn money streaming through advertising and subscribers, remain unpunished.