• funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    15
    arrow-down
    21
    ·
    11 months ago

    personally I think its better to be afraid of real things that are happening than things made up by Facebook boomers.

    why this particular issue fools even the most technical of people I’ll never know.

    • Blackmist@feddit.uk
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      26
      ·
      11 months ago

      But Facebook can’t spy on me, I repost the “I DO NOT GIVE FACEBOOK PERMISSION” spam every 3 months without fail!

      • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        edit-2
        11 months ago

        obviously what you vaguely describe has been around since 1945.

        That home assistant devices are constantly listening and feeding back marketing data on every conversation is patent and disproven nonsense.

        they have done packet sniffing investigations, they have disassembled the devices, they have run meters on the electrical charges… everything in every way you can imagine.

        But even if you just think about it for a second - processing a live audio feed at a rate of 1 second per second indefinitely and correlating that data via voice recognition to your Google profile all to… make your ad personalizations… worse? more inaccurate?

        like what the hell is the perceived benefit? That my wife says, “oh my dad found my old barbie house!” while at my neighbors house and my neighbor gets served barbie ads? Why would Google want that?

    • WoahWoah@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      11 months ago

      At some point ever you’re going to realize is that the real things you need to be afraid of are largely caused by the stuff made up by Facebook boomers.

      • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        11 months ago

        what specifically? vaccines cause autism/monkeypox, the democrats drink baby blood, trump won the last/next election, Putin is good because he’s only killing Nazis in Ukraine, forest fires are caused by Jewish space lasers, LGBTQ+ folks are grooming children and Bill Gates wants to put microchips in your brain?

        Like — what are you saying, some misinformation is good?