In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mention

One of Facebook's alleged marketing partners explained how it listens to users' smartphone microphones and advertises to them accordingly.

Futurism
@Viss isn't this a rehash of the same article with no new info? Again, just a pitch deck, 'claims', 'bragged' and 0 actual avidence.

@jpop32 they blogged about it, then deleted the post when it got picked up by 404 media, but someone archived it before they could take it down.

is the company itself bragging about it evidence enough for you?

https://archive.is/pSBzD

@Viss Of course it isn't! Adtech industry is chick full of swindlers, this is well known. We're talking about $ billions stolen yearly [*]. Google 'adtech fraud' for a bit. Taking their claims at face value is Ill advised.

* - https://searchengineland.com/ad-spend-lost-ad-fraud-2023-432610

$84 billion of ad spend lost due to ad fraud in 2023

This figure is expected to rise to $172 billion by 2028, according to a new report published by Juniper Research.

Search Engine Land
@jpop32 @Viss sounding like a true antivax flat-earther lol