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It's the same thing that causes people to think their phones are always listening to them and serving ads or whatever based on that. "Well I was just talking a

• WFBeach 7y ago
  Except the fact that Facebook's app may not listen to you doesn't mean advertisers they integrate with don't have sdks in other apps that do / have in the past. So yes. Phone likely is actually listening to you if you ran into this and actually literally never searched for bell bottom shaped cast iron skillets but see them in your ads now.
• cma 7y ago
  What actually happens there usually is whoever you were talking with googles it, they know you were together and might have talked about it through fine grained location data, so now they target ads at you about it as well since the other person’s search immediately after an interaction with you is a good indicator you may have discussed it or you may be interested in it. No need for the mic.
  • DaniFong 7y ago
    Big if presently true. Ultimately people are going to spy on everything they can get away with, more data for the neural network to make you buy things...