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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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[–] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (6 children)

There were whole threads of people saying this stuff doesn't happen. They would say it just didn't make sense that companies would do this, it's not worth it to them. That all the ads I was seeing at convenient times were just a coincidence.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 2 months ago

Right and your evidence is "I think it happens".

Show me the stack trace.

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I have my camera and microphone deactivated on the OS level because Youtube and Spotify would show me things workmates mentioned way too often.

I didn't notice it since.

Could still be a major coincidence though, the biggest of them.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

Same exact thing for me, and same exact results. Also too major of a coincidence in my mind.

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago

And they are right. This company is full of shit. Show me any proof the tech from the deleted advert actually existed.

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The next iteration of gaslighting is already here: That it's no big deal anyway since you can just use an ad blocker. Riiight, let's all just turn our eyes away to make the monster go away. Surely, it'll get bored and stop listening and recording, and surely, it will not sell its collected data off to banks, insurance providers, the government, law enforcement... right?

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

Seriously... If ad-blockers worked at a high enough level to actually impact this shit, then they wouldn't be doing it. They know most people don't bother with ad blockers, and because of that, they're low-hanging fruit.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There are simps in this thread trying to say "uuuuhmmmm AKSHUALLY it's not Facebook directly" like that's fucking relevant to the problem.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 2 months ago

They're here in this thread lol. No matter what, these people will deny its happening. I don't understand it.