this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2024
1119 points (96.6% liked)

Technology

59534 readers
3209 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 40 points 2 months ago (14 children)

I remember reading some time ago that "the idea (of phones listening to everything you say to serve ads) makes no economic sense, because it'd be too expensive to run"

Looks like it actually isn't "too expensive" to run in the end.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 9 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Yep, and it's not just Facebook, not just microphone. My lappie recently started serving ads for something I searched on a device not linked to it. I'm guessing it's my ISP engaging in these sneak tactics.

[–] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Depemds if you are logged i to google services on your phone and on you pc browser. If you log into anything google on your browser it retains that log in across all the apps

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (11 replies)