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Re:In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your P... by armada651 on Monday September 02, 2024 @06:18AM (#41424162)

They're probably not doing it through smartphones, since the leaked slide deck never actually directly mentions the devices they're using to listen in on people only stating they're "smart devices": https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25051283-cmg-pitch-d...

It is much more likely they're listening in using the microphones in smart TVs, which have much weaker privacy protections. This would also make sense since Cox Media Group is a broadcaster, thus they're much more likely to have broad access to data from smart TVs than from smartphones.

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Re:In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your P... by trustno2 on Monday September 02, 2024 @06:26AM (#41424189)

This makes way more sense.

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Re:In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your P... by tjpnz on Monday September 02, 2024 @06:26AM (#41424193)

So AdGuard DNS to the rescue?

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Re:In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your P... by mananaysiempre on Monday September 02, 2024 @06:27AM (#41424201)

Firewalled LAN segments with no internet access, rather.

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Re:In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your P... by HenryBemis on Monday September 02, 2024 @06:35AM (#41424231)

I have been using NoRoot Firewall since my day1 with Android. It takes some times but I allow the least amount of rules per app, then block . per app, and block globally the ones I identify (trackers etc.)

I also block 31... range globally and the FB and FBCDN addresses (namely)(but I don't use FB/IG/WA anyway)

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Re:In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your P... by nulltxt on Monday September 02, 2024 @09:56PM (#41430482)

Which one? Do you have a link, I'd like to try setting it up for myself

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Re:In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your P... by bsmartt on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @07:54AM (#41434005)

google search that badboy, my man

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Re:In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your P... by madeofpalk on Monday September 02, 2024 @06:53AM (#41424314)

or just don't connect devices with lax security or privacy to the internet.

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Re:In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your P... by bsmartt on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @08:02AM (#41434084)

Just so we're all clear, the question about facebook and phones specifically is not new..

2016: https://qz.com/697923/heres-how-to-stop-facebook-from-listen... https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/facebook-using-people-s-p...

2018: https://money.com/how-to-turn-off-phone-microphone-facebook-...

2019: https://newatlas.com/computers/facebook-not-secretly-listeni...

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Re:In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your P... by armada651 on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @03:36AM (#41442892)

None of those articles provide evidence and the last article mentions how difficult it would be to hide such activity on a smartphone due to power and data constraints. A smart TV has none of those issues.

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