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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 13 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

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

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 6 months ago

Oh you know what? Gmail!

[-] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

That'll do it 😀

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