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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] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

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

Oh you know what? Gmail!

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

That'll do it 😀