One of my weirder hobbies is trying to convince people that the idea that companies are listening to you through your phone’s microphone and serving you targeted ads is a …

Not my title! I do think we are being listened to. And location tracked. And it’s being passed on to advertisers. Is it apple though? Probably not is my take away from this article, but I don’t trust plenty of others, and apple still does

  • rumbaEnglish
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    3 days ago

    My big problem isn’t with the concept I could talk about buying parrot food.

    But there has to be a vendor out there that says hey whoever I’m buying this data from, I need to put an ad in front of parrot owners.

    These are going to be very high cost ads, so whatever products they’re going to sell you probably have a respectable profit margin or respectable expected lifetime value.

    Trying to trigger it on purpose, without any idea of who’s advertising or for what is somewhat of a fool’s errand.