This is where you lose people. It’s been proven time and time again that the mics on your phones aren’t transmitting things back without you knowing about it.

Facebook isn’t always listening in on your conversations. They don’t need to. It’s useless data.

Voice isn’t how they figure out what you like and are probably talking about at any given moment with other people.

Here’s a short podcast episode that gets the point across: https://gimletmedia.com/amp/shows/reply-all/z3hlwr

You could literally physically destroy the microphone of your phone, and you’ll still get ads served up like “they are listening to you”

[–] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not entirely true. Clearly they aren't listening all the time, but I doubt they're collecting that voice data for no reason.

[–] DeanFogg@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You act like it's impossible which really comes off as desperation for it to be true. Definitely not impossible

If they could access those indiscriminately you could guaran-fucking-tee people would start taking it seriously.

/tinfoil hat

That's why they don't list those things in your app permissions unless it expressly "uses it"

Zuckerborg probably watches people pee all the time.

[–] varzaman@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

It’s not imposibile, it’s unlikely, and would be noticeable.

Dunno how app permissions prove that they are always listening when those permissions are required to access the mic at any point in time, including when you’re using the app and invoke it yourself.