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Spy service

posted 4 years ago by holly61 (970)
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Facebook was the closest thing to such a thing other than the FBI tapping your phone. Except nobody knew it. When I was a teenager I thought it was silly and fun and enjoyed starting trivial pages and petitions. I shared a lot of personal information from 2008-2014. I had not a clue how serious it was to do such a thing of what the websites purpose was.

Now I get it. I know there are people that give off tips of doing something violent on social media and then the act can be intervened because they're able to tell who they are. But the majority of people weren't doing anything illegal or never intended to.

[–] einstein (2567) 4 years ago

did you know, that even if you close the facebook tab it still tracks you, and on most phones you cant uninstall it.

[–] holly61 (970) 4 years ago

I deleted the account in 2014.

[–] BourbonKing (5778) 4 years ago

Facebook and Google also have access to your microphone on your computer and smartphone. Conduct a simple test by making broad statements like you want to find the love of your life or you really want to buy a new gas efficient car and see if ads appear on various websites that cross promote with both entities.

I did this a couple of years ago and it indeed produced a bunch of ads for dating and car dealerships

[–] CharlotteXavier (2357) 4 years ago

That’s not surprising since your audio searches are still searches.

Did you use google? I’m wondering if they access other search engines. I know they’re obviously tied into Amazon eBay YouTube.

[–] BourbonKing (5778) 4 years ago

Google's Adsense tool is basically what grabs vocal algorithms and translates them into relative searches.

[–] CharlotteXavier (2357) 4 years ago

So what about DuckDuckGo?

[–] CharlotteXavier (2357) 4 years ago

What if you delete your account?

[–] CharlotteXavier (2357) 4 years ago

Why do you say was? Has something changed?