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Re:What Vizio was doing behind the TV screen by xtracto on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @09:59AM (#13589749)
What Facebook is doing is quite frankly scary. This Sunday over a birthday meeting with some friends, one of them was telling us about a restaurant called "Lucuma" (this is in Guadalajara, Mexico). My wife did nothing with her cell-phone, except having it with her during the conversation.

Later that day when we are back at home, she showed me an ad about that same restaurant. We never searched for something similar (this is a vegan restaurant), but only talked about it on our way home.

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Re:What Vizio was doing behind the TV screen by webXL on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @11:10AM (#13590281)
The restaurant most likely bought some ads that targeted your wife and your friends' demographic. It's far easier to do that than covertly access your phone's mic.
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Re:What Vizio was doing behind the TV screen by pnutjam on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @02:58PM (#13592179)
Your wife's friends probably searched it and facebook lumped you all together in their algorithm.

Still creepy.

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Re:What Vizio was doing behind the TV screen by jrockway on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @02:39PM (#13592001)
It's also possible that the friends saw this ad first, thus planting the idea in the first place.
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Re:What Vizio was doing behind the TV screen by yaur on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @01:42PM (#13591498)
Here in NY recording people without their consent is definitely against the law and is likely to piss off important people. As fun as this CT is it seems extraordinarily unlikely that FB employees would risk going to jail for this feature.
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