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Re:Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your P... by smt88 on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @03:57PM (#16539823)
I've met a lot of people outside HN who believe FB is listening to their conversations through the mic. I haven't yet met one who has stopped using it as a result.

I think you wildly overestimate how angry users get about privacy violations. For examples, Target, Yahoo, Home Depot, and Equifax have not been screamed into rubble.

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Re:Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your P... by pnutjam on Thursday March 08, 2018 @11:03AM (#16545153)
Many of them haven't stopped using facebook, but many have uninstalled the app.
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Re:Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your P... by fjsolwmv on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @08:07PM (#16541436)
To be fair, people who believe that are not bright bulbs. They fail at very simple statistical analysis and conspiracy theory testing.
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Re:Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your P... by Simon_says on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @08:23PM (#16541517)
To be fair, almost everybody fails at statistical analysis, even scientists whose work depends on it.
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