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  • AnonStoleMyPantstoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Marketing Company Claims That It Actually Is Listening to Your Phone and Smart Speakers to Target Ads
    5•1 year ago

    The biggest criticism for the idea of phones always listening and sending that data somewhere ia that they would also be listening to other corporations and their meetings. Even if multi-billion corporations can just waltz over the rights of normal people, other companies would be very interested in knowing this is happening.

    Also I feel like they already know this stuff so they gain very fucking little in listening on us. You saw an interesting website two days ago and spent more time in it than normal. Then you meet uo with friends whom are known to have similar likes as you, why the hell would ad companies not show ads for the same page / item / event to those people. It doesn’t matter at all if you mention it or not. Companies already know what products and brands you like, if your friends search for something, obviously they get ads of products that are interesting in their circle of friends. The items / brands / whatever are being talked about because they’re interesting to the circle of people, which companies already know.

  • AnonStoleMyPantstoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•iPhone is listening
    11•1 year ago

    Very common. Advertisers already know everyone you come in contact with, or ar least those whom you spend time with. They will use that info to push ads to the group, or to the relevant people of that group.

    It’s Christmas time, you browse moccasins store for 10min, obviously you’re interested in them. Why wouldn’t advertisers show that item to your gf? That’s like the perfect ad for her.

  • AnonStoleMyPantstoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Google exploited exclusive search engine deals to maintain its advantage over rivals, DOJ argues
    1•2 years ago

    Fun things. Though I’m not sure if anything like this is necessary even. Considering how much people tend to care about what these companies are doing and are willingly putting everything into their hands.

    Now to be fair, I can’t really blame people that much. There is a lot to worry about and care about in this world, especially with the 247 news blasting us from every direction about disasters, wars, tensions, climate change etc. You have limited about of “caring” in you and gotta filter out the rest of the shit to keep your sanity. Tech companies are probably nor very high in the list. Which is why the big boys like governments and EU etc should do the heavy lifting but yeah, that has been going really well for the past 20 years.