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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't give anything mic or camera access on iOS. It's really not an inconvenience, and anything that demands it is something I don't want on my phone anyways.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You don't use the camera or phone?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I'm very obviously not talking about system apps.

You don't have to give third party apps permissions they don't need.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Come on man, you know they didn't mean it literally 💀

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Some of us are autistic. I didn't understand it either.