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Facebook listening to conservations?
Today in our office my colleague was telling me how his dream would be to work in the maritime industry designing boats (he is a mechanical engineer). I have never searched for maritime related technology and have no interest in it. Tonight I have this suggested post from Facebook: http://www.bluewaterrigging.com/team/andrew-macdonald/
- zhte415 9y agoconservations? conversations?
- owebmaster 9y agoconservatives?
- roshan_arhsim 9y agoYes they are listening!!! there are enough discussion about it in the /r/technology and even here at HN
- dialupmodem 9y agoI would pay good money for a study on this. Ex: Choose a hundred random subjects and assign them irrelevant, obscure keywords to speak loudly into their phones while the messenger app is open. Report back with resulting ads displayed over the following week.
- dotmanish 9y agoThere's another possibility: Your friend searched for it or read articles about it @ office. You two share the same geolocation and IP address @ office. Facebook figured out you might be interested in the same topics as what others in your office are searching for. Facebook shows you potentially related articles @ home. No audio listening required. I'd be surprised if Facebook Product Managers haven't been doing the above. This is basic.
- samblr 9y ago+1 for this. Our devices, networks, graphs(social-and-contacts and graphs-of-graphs(-of-graphs..)), its click, scrolls, likes, visits, (+ fwe millions variables) are input to a deep-learning neural-network whoose end-goal is we-know-it. A person's participation on internet is more like theme of movie Inception. Although dream state can be equated being on internet :)
- Spooky23 9y agoI don't know why in these threads people always go to great lengths to discount the possibility of this happening. Facebook A/B tests all sorts of stuff, all of the time. I had 2 or 3 incidents like this happen until a year ago when I eliminated use of their app for good. When Facebook addressed this question last year, the answer was: "[Facebook] does not use your phone’s microphone to inform ads or to change what you see in News Feed". That's not a denial.
- brudgers 9y agoWell there's this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14459417 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14459417 But that's legally plausible as just monitoring phone orientation to improve user experience.
- gtirloni 9y agoThere have been numerous threads about this: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=facebook%20listening https://hn.algolia.com/?query=facebook%20listening
- singold 9y agoHow possible it is to reverse the app looking for syscalls to the microphone api or something? You should probably discard user initiated audio recording if available but looks doable for someone with the knowledge. Disclaimer: I know almost nothing about reversing