As a Meta employee, I can honestly tell you what we know, and I do not know how we obtain all of it.

* Your full name
* Your full home address
* Your phone number
* Your e-mail
* Your government ID
* Your consumer report history
* The name of every family member
* The name of every friend
* The name of their family / friends
* Your marital status
* If you are faithful to your partner
* Your work history (all of it)
* Your education history (all of it)
* Your travel history (going back years)
* Your birth gender
* Your gender ID
* Your sexuality
* Your sexual preferences
* How often you're having sex
* Your partner's details (all the above)
* Your political ideology
* Your involvement with any group
* If you protest, we know
* If you're unhappy, we know

The amount of information we collect on you is insane. And we do it all for supposedly marketing and yes, we help the government since they have access to all this too.

So when someone says they want to avoid META or GOOGLE - respect.

Right now, if you have an Android Phone and have any META apps -- Without opening them, check if they are running.

Power off and power on your phone (reboot), and they will still be running on their own.

Proceed to put your phone down on the table without opening the app and talk about something random. DYI Projects, for example. Do this for an hour or so, and wait.

Your META apps will start showing you ads for that topic if there is a market for it. We're always listening -- Always!

@Linux My girlfriend just noticed this the other day. She also noticed this with her Google searches. The phone is literally spying on us without our permission. It’s absolutely creepy and disturbing. My iPhone does not do this.

@housepanther

Wrong.

Sign up for AdGuard DNS or Control D DNS and enable logging. Have your iPhone use that profile all the time.

Even with no apps installed. Your Apple iPhone calls out more than Android or Microsoft Windows 11.

Now go ahead and install some apps and watch the query climb rapidly.

@Linux Oh really!? Okay.
@Linux JFC! And here I thought Apple would be better.
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@EugestShirley it's not enabled by default anyway, it's opt-in. It should be opt-out if they really care about your privacy. @housepanther @Linux