return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoIn Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mentionfuturism.comexternal-linkmessage-square263fedilinkarrow-up11.16Karrow-down141cross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
arrow-up11.12Karrow-down1external-linkIn Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mentionfuturism.comreturn2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square263fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
minus-squareone_knight_scripting@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 months agoAndroid only solution, I think. Admittedly I don’t know I iPhone very well.
minus-squareripripripriprip@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down3·3 months agoAnecdotally, it’s not even a solution. I’ve run into “coincidental” ads without having the FB app installed (visiting FB via browser).
minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·edit-23 months agoThen they’ve installed a root kit on your computer because that’s the only way they could have access to your microphone, the web browser blocks it otherwise.
Android only solution, I think. Admittedly I don’t know I iPhone very well.
Anecdotally, it’s not even a solution. I’ve run into “coincidental” ads without having the FB app installed (visiting FB via browser).
Then they’ve installed a root kit on your computer because that’s the only way they could have access to your microphone, the web browser blocks it otherwise.