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[Lifehacker] - Your Phone Isn’t Spying on You to Show You Ads (It’s Worse Than That) (lifehacker.com)

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[-] freeman@lemmy.pub 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It has a microphone right there, so why wouldn’t it be sending our voices to Google headquarters or wherever so they can send me an ad? What other explanation is there?

She made a search on wifi for a cordless dremel. Ad companies saw “this IP is searching for cordless dremels we should give ads there”

Author joins same wifi network and goes to a page served by said ad company (or company in general like amazon). Gets ad for dremel.

this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2023

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