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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)

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Maeve@kbin.earth
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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.

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Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world
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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

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Maeve@kbin.earth
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Oh you know what? Gmail!

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Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world
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That’ll do it 😀

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