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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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[–] endofline@lemmy.ca 40 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Most of the non tech people reaction

[–] Blackdoomax@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 months ago (2 children)

But before that, when it was not acknowledged by social media, it was more like ' you're paranoid. And you think you're that important that they listen to you? Common, get back to reality '

[–] endofline@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah, being not paranoid is hard in XXI century.

TBH the same scenario has been mentioned in the "ex machina" movie from 2014 when colleb has been asking how the humanoid robots work. The deep blue was AI of search engine taking data from listening to the phone calls

[–] JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I feel like we've been gaslighted so bad about this that we were even denying each other's reality.

I knew they had to be doing this so I turned off all mic permissions. One day it pissed me off so much I started keeping my phone off completely unless I needed to use it.

The only good thing that came out of it was I learned about ad blockers. Fine, listen to me since I can't fucking stop you(keeping phone off was inconvenient), but it's futile now and you wasted money since I won't see your stupid fucking ads anymore.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I knew they had to be doing this so I turned off all mic permissions. One day it pissed me off so much I started keeping my phone off completely unless I needed to use it

It might be an easy to just stop using Facebook really.

I've had enough time to work out which of my relatives are racist, so I don't really need it anymore.

[–] JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

I don't have fb or the youtube app and haven't for years... so I'm not sure what was doing it. I have ublock origin now, so if it's still happening I wouldn't know.

Honestly the thought of them pouring that much money into r&d and launching that spyware just to have us plebs block the end result(ads) does feel kinda good at least.

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

It's the reverse. Non tech people believe the snake oil, tech people know this is snake oil.