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Reply All made an episode on this: https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/109-facebook-spying https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/109-facebook-spying

• natecavanaugh 9y ago
  The episode was really good and stated that Facebook has at least 55,000 data points on any given individual, and when you have that kind of metadata on someone, it seems like parsing voice data would be inefficient and expensive in comparison to inferring information from those data points.
  • paulie_a 9y ago
    This is why people should forget about attempting to block ads and start attempting to actively ruin the analytics. I've started to click random links and garbage ads just to mess with the bulk collection of data. It probably won't make a dent, but hopefully it scews a few of those data points
• bduerst 9y ago
  They followed up with that person from that episode, and they all determined that it most likely wasn't microphone listening, just cross platform tracking with instagram. https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/113-reply-alls-year-end-extravaganza#episode-player https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/113-reply-alls-year-en...
  • _sdegutis 9y ago
    Just tonight we briefly mentioned garage doors and remote garage door openers, and we got an ad on FB for remote car openers. We haven't looked up any of these things online or anything else, it was a brief discussion that lasted all of 1 or 2 minutes, tops. It's definitely not cross platform tracking, it's got to be microphone listening. I advised her to uninstall FB from her phone, because this is getting obnoxiously creepy.