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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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[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Setting aside confirmation bias (idk, because it's boring?): So people you're in a book club with, an established group which it is very easy to associate you with, were discussing Dell laptops... and you think it's strange you got looped in? If three people from your book club all looked up dells later, or earlier, or etc. etc., why wouldn't they figure you might also be interested in dell laptops? An approach that doesn't require NLP of god only knows how much hypothetical audio taken from pockets, and works much better?

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago

I'm just shocked that there are marketing departments that actually know what they're doing. Granted I haven't worked for any huge companies, so that's probably why I have difficulty picturing it.