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Your Phone Isn’t Eavesdropping on You to Show You Ads (It’s Worse Than That) (lifehacker.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I changed the title from "Spying" to "Eavesdropping" because the article actually directly supports that it is "spying" on you, just not listening.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (8 children)

I occasionally do fun little experiments with others and there phones (with contest) where we find a subject we both have absolutely no interest in, and we figure it out without any electronics at all around, like our back and what not, then we agree to not do anything with our electronics about it at all and only talk to each other about it by our phones, and every fucking time we both start to get add recommendations about whatever we was talking about.

Had a past friend who was asexual and aromantic and never really cared or looked into paternity tests and baby stuff (because like why?) and after a few days of randomly talking about it they got tons of adds targeted for pregnant women (they was trans non binary but was afab)

So from my limited tests, it absolutely does spy on us

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I have tried it as well. Speaking in front of my phone about surfing equipment for example. I couldn't care less about surfing so wouldn't accidentally google anything about it but so far I never got any specific ads for that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You fool you just typed it and spoiled your experiment

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Thought about that. Next time I'll just use paragliding!

Oh shit.

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