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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)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This comment inspired me to go turn off microphone, camera, Bluetooth, and local network access for every app. I’ll reenable as necessary.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Just leave it on for whatever runs your phone calls. I emabarrasingly discovered that the phone app NEEDS microphone access lol.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I keep my microphone and camera off at the OS level always now. Android has quick options for it that you can add to your pull-down menu thing at the top. When I get an incoming call, a popup comes up asking if I want to allow voice permissions. Then after the call I disable it again. Same goes if I need to take photos.

I've never not believed that they listen to this shit. I've had far too many coincidental ad placements after saying something completely unrelated to anything I've ever searched for.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Can’t take calls? Don’t threaten ME with a good time!