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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] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Anecdotally, it's not even a solution. I've run into "coincidental" ads without having the FB app installed (visiting FB via browser).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Then they've installed a root kit on your computer because that's the only way they could have access to your microphone, the web browser blocks it otherwise.