Posted on 10/25/2021 8:52:11 AM PDT by Zathras
You believe being in a park has a connection with selling toasters?
Really?
G Larry wrote:
Not if you have never downloaded the app.
I’ve been warning for years that FB allows takeover of your devices, in the background, invisible to you.
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Speaking of FB, where is the “like” button.
I have nothing else to say except ditto to this post
Unless based on her demographics and/or previous purchases they thought that’s the store she was interested in.
And since they were talking about Crate and Barrel, I bet she’s gone there before.
That’s easier to figure out than parsing language.
A couple of years ago, my wife and I were driving into town to do some shopping. Her phone was turned on but not being used for anything. I happened to mention that Adirondack chairs were more comfortable than they looked, apropos of nothing, as I hadn’t mentioned them in many years, or even thought of them as far as I remember. We immediately started getting ads for Adirondack chairs from Wayfair and others.
Don’t try to tell me they’re not listening.
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The post said they had not been to that store. And it seems very likely they had been to a number of other chains in the same neighborhood.
Sometimes it is embedded in the phone or computer and you cannot turn it off.
This guy is good.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYVU6rModlGxvJbszCclGGw/videos
Like MacAfee software.
h/t SC DOC
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“I don’t believe that is an accurate statement...”
Well, that is what the agreement stated on my phone. Did not mention anything about disabling either one.
Forgot to thank you for the ping :) Sorry.
What makes anyone think that disabling mic access via api actually does anything? Because Google said it would? The only thing I would trust to disable mic access is a physical switch on the mic. And even then how does anyone know that the speaker or inertial sensors can’t be used as a mic? These things are loaded with sensors of all kinds. I am certain that clever people can invent many ways to squeeze audio out of one or more of them. The only way to insure smart phone privacy is to not have one.
No problem. You’re welcome
You can toggle those things on or off anytime you wish. If you have an iPhone it’s easy. In Settings.
I despise Facebook and Twitter but I use them both for things I want and I can control what I see. I especially despise Facebook but it’s the only way I can communicate with my European cat breeder friends so there ya go. Bummer.
# Finally, someone is listening to me! ;)
Yet another way that a phone is not like a wife, or husband.
I’ve thought about talking to a “ghost” person about picking up some tools to commit terrorist acts in DC to see if any fed cars come bouncing down my 1/4 mile driveway. But first I’d need to create some proof of what I was doing and why, so that if they DO show up, I have an ironclad and clear proof that it was just a test. Obviously it would not be “on” me or my property.
FB or the GFI?
Well, regardless:
VSS
WADS
WARS
CARC
“You can toggle those things on or off anytime you wish.”
Edward Snowden says you can’t really be sure about that.
How to manage what sites share with Facebook using the Off-Facebook Activity tool
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