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In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mention (futurism.com)

submitted 2 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] dianyxx@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 2 months ago

Wonder what it'll get out of 'Kill Zuckerberg' and other things.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

We know? It's not a coincidence that when you mention something like Cheap Flights to Dublin, it soon ends up on your ad rotation.

Honestly I'd rather that than ads for the things I already bought.

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[–] FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This is why I don't have the Facebook app installed. However, what about messenger? Did the collect the data from messenger?

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[–] brey1013@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Shocked, I tell you!

[–] grubbyweasel@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Ngl man I'm not buying it. With all the protections in mobile OSes against this exact kind of thing it straight up doesn't seem possible

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