FB/Insta listening to conversations. What the hell!?
Call me all sorts of names, troll me all you want and I know most of you don’t work on high-profile projects, just regular grunt CRUD stuff, but hear me out. Went to CVS today to get Tylenol. I tell my gf “I just got Tylenol”, bam! 5 minutes later, ad on Instagram about Tylenol. I asked my gf if she Google Tylenol or anything similar and she didn’t! I didn’t Google about it before getting it. This is just one of many such incidences where the ads are spookily precise. TC: $650k Yoe: 7.5 #tech #instagram #spying #listening
It happens to me all the time, even though I don't grant permissions to Instagram's app and don't have a FB account. The only Meta app I grant permissions to microphone/camera/calls is WhatsApp 🤔, but AFAIK WhatsApp can't share user data with other Meta apps due to some legal stuff
No db
What?
Yep, Google is totally innocent here..
Told my gf I had a dream about ants, lo and behold later that day I got an from raid on IG. I'm not the conspiracy type but it's all just way too coincidental 🧐
I've heard something similar. A friend from Canada was on a business trip to the USA and talked about taxes at the airport. The next few days she was getting American tax law consultancy ads.
It’s like when you buy a car, turns out on the road everyone has the same car too!
Yeah I do CRUD apps all day but make bank :) I don’t mind!
Living under a rock?
Device graphs? An app that you gave microphone access to is working with insta
So WhatsApp then, clearly.
Not necessarily. There’s plenty of apps not owned by meta that are connecting your info. But yea what’s app would be my suspicion as well
It may not actually have been through the microphone. Apps use location services and Bluetooth beacons embedded in the stores to track you. You may have been targeted with the ad simply because you stood at the painkiller section. But yes, apps also use audio for ad targeting.
So show me ad for CVS? Not precisely Tylenol?
Tylenol could be targeting people who recently visited CVS stores. Are you really this dense? You don’t deserve your TC
How’s your tc so high and you so dumb?
O shutup! Just cuz you don’t have an answer?
Nice