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

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

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One of Facebook's alleged marketing partners explained how it listens to users' smartphone microphones and advertises to them accordingly.
  • @[email protected]
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    You don’t use the camera or phone?

    • @[email protected]
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      I’m very obviously not talking about system apps.

      You don’t have to give third party apps permissions they don’t need.

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      Come on man, you know they didn’t mean it literally 💀

      • y0kai
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        Some of us are autistic. I didn’t understand it either.

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