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pooh [she/her, love/loves]@hexbear.net to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 9 months ago

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.
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    Archived cox media page selling this service:
    https://web.archive.org/web/20231116115055/https://www.cmglocalsolutions.com/cmg-active-listening

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      Well there it is.

      I have nothing but anecdotal examples, but the amount of weirdly specific ads I’ve gotten related to shit I (or my partner) was just talking about the other day just keeps piling up.

      The most noteworthy though was something I heard from an acquaintance. She has no interest in sports, doesn’t watch them, doesn’t search about them, doesn’t care. One day she went to a gathering with her husband where most of the people there were watching the hockey game. In the days that followed she started getting ads (and, IIRC, even push notifications) about hockey disgost

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