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Your Phone Isn’t Eavesdropping on You to Show You Ads (It’s Worse Than That) (lifehacker.com)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I changed the title from "Spying" to "Eavesdropping" because the article actually directly supports that it is "spying" on you, just not listening.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I've been thinking it's the other way around. You see such and such ad X times and then the next thing you know you're thinking about it, then mention something to someone. Then Notice the ad you've been seeing for a while now.

They don't have to listen for a thought they put there in the first place.

I think history will look back at this period of wild ass mass propaganda and be like: what do you mean they used it to sell crap?