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Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones
(www.the-independent.com)
this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2025
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My wife and I were driving down the highway and I saw an old Cadillac, and I said, “hey, I like that old Cadillac.” Not even an hour later I got a facebook marketplace notification about a Cadillac for sale near me. I have NEVER searched for Cadillacs for sale.
Yeah, crazy thing is it's never things I just think about but never tell anyone. Ads don't come until I mention it out loud near my phone.
I've had things like this happen, and I always suspected it was Facebook itself doing it, but now I think it's also likely its something else feeding info into an ad system that then shows the ad on Facebook.
Every now and then I'll just blurt out random things I want that I'd never want to see if I can trigger getting ads for it. Hasn't happened in quite awhile now, probably because restrictions on doing it are getting better.