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Post by Joey on Nov 30, 2020 23:34:01 GMT 10
I too go through the permissions on my phone and disable the mic/location for everything expect maps but I keep location turned off when I'm not using the GPS function and always deny requests for location. That on top of VPN on my desktop and phone. I also diable to "targeted/personalised" ads on all devices. I also use various ad blockers on my browsers so I don't get to see a lot of crap, even use a youtube ad blocker on the desktop which is a godsend, especially on those videos that have a double add every 2 mins for greedy people. I was chatting to my workmate the other week about the targeted ads thing on the phone so we started to overtly discuss a certain topic for the following couple of hours using the same keywords over and over, but alas I couldn't get any triggered ads to come up on my browsing in the following days, maybe the diable personalised ads function actually works?
I read somewhere a while back, that Julian Assange uses an older style non-smartphone and has the mic physically disconnected on it so the only way he can talk on it is to use a plugin mic/earphone to avoid the phone getting hacked to eavesdrop on him.
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Post by spinifex on Dec 1, 2020 5:49:59 GMT 10
We tried baiting my comp again with a random topic.
On this occasion got nothing related in the adds.
Either: It doesn't operate all the time, to perhaps avoid making it too obvious whats going on OR the algo's recognise over-use of a term - since we did lay it on with abnormal repetition.
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