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Re:Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted ... by randyrand on Monday October 29, 2018 @01:27PM (#18329274)
Do they not use your conversations for targeted ads? This is news to me, and surprising.
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Re:Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted ... by wgerard on Monday October 29, 2018 @01:36PM (#18329369)
While anything's possible, it would be pretty shocking if Facebook figured out how to, on iOS (I can't speak for Android):

* Record audio if the app's killed completely

* Record audio with microphone permission disabled

* etc.

All of which have been claimed.

The far more likely scenario is that we're much more predictable than we think. Remember the target controversy when they figured out a teenage girl was pregnant before she had told her parents [1]? That happened in 2012. Imagine how much more advanced things have become since then.

1: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...

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Re:Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted ... by randyrand on Monday October 29, 2018 @04:10PM (#18330894)
I was talking about the messenger texting app
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Re:Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted ... by Splines on Monday October 29, 2018 @07:11PM (#18332499)
I don't know why this got downvoted, while the question "does FB listen in on you" may not have a definitive answer, the answer to the question "does FB messenger look at your conversation text" is "yes": http://time.com/money/5227844/facebook-reviews-private-messa...

Does it use your private messages for advertising? It seems like "no" for now, but nothing is stopping them.

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