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misnome
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Facebook denies 'listening' to conversations
Coincidence is a less sinister explanation. You never take note of the adverts if they weren’t immediately relevant.
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This seems like something that could be settled via some kind of study, like playing audio to the phone and recording what ads get shown and doing it to a population of phones and social media accounts.
placeybordeaux
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You can also monitor the network traffic, audio takes up a decent chunk of data.
You can decompile the app and see what it does.
Harimwakairi
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But that's so much less entertaining to speculate about! Why should obvious truth get in the way of our fun?
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