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Re:Facebook’s Safety Check is a stress-inducing flip of soci... by daveFNbuck on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @11:58PM (#14557849)
How did you ensure that no other apps were listening in the background?
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Re:Facebook’s Safety Check is a stress-inducing flip of soci... by mod on Thursday June 15, 2017 @12:02AM (#14557862)
I don't understand--how would other apps trigger related facebook ads?
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Re:Facebook’s Safety Check is a stress-inducing flip of soci... by seanp2k2 on Thursday June 15, 2017 @02:47AM (#14558398)
Send some data to an ad network or something that feeds it, Facebook ads somehow pick that up. Not beyond the realm of feasibility. Try using a just-factory-reset phone with JUST the Facebook app installed. There is science to be done here.
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Re:Facebook’s Safety Check is a stress-inducing flip of soci... by falseAss on Thursday June 15, 2017 @10:06AM (#14560488)
https://www.quora.com/How-does-Facebook-know-what-I-looked-a...
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