It sees you when you're sleeping, It knows when you're awake It set you up to be data-mined And it knows just what to take!"
Facebook does a Faceplant on itself.
So I went someplace and saw what looked like a fun card game, Exploding Kittens. I picked it up and read the box. Said nothing to nobody and put it down.
I came home and told my partner about it, just once, verbally.
Ads for Exploding Kittens come up on my computer.
Listening for our government overlords.
FU FB!
This isn’t new. It’s been reported that Smart TVs can do the same thing.
Not me. I never subscribed.
And that’s why I taped my ‘puter microphone to the bottom of my chair and eat a lot of beans!
Pinterest does it, too. I don’t Twitter on my phone, but I’m sure it does it, too.
I remember one day at my in-laws, and I was having a conversation with my brother-in-law in his kitchen. I excused myself to go take s*#t. As I walked to their bathroom a Charmin commercial came on the television.
I always thought that was weird.
So it would seem that a good defense would be to bombard FB and others with phony search words. Data is useless when it means nothing, no? What is the easiest way to do that without making it a nuisance for yourself?
...and that’s why Zuckerberg covers his laptop camera and microphone with tape...
An on line entity that invites people to spill their guts publicly, and we are surprised to learn they make use of personal information?
I’ve had a bandaid over the camera since I learned that it can be remotely turned on. Now I have a bandaid over the speaker. I will remove it when I want to listen to something.
A friend mentioned the other day that when she talked about something on the phone she started getting ads for whatever it was she was talking about.
It’s happened to me. I use a kindle and things would pop up up that I mentioned to my husband I went to settings and found Alexa was turned on.
It could be helpful. Maybe I can uncover the speaker and describe something I need but don’t know the proper name. Maybe it will help me.