Everyone!! STOP USING FACEBOOK!

It's not just facebook. Google has been doing it for years.

Good thing I don't talk to anyone but myself... >.>

3 years free of Cuckbook. User pushback seems to be gathering steam...

3 years free

Ha! I ditched Dossierbook about the same time ago. Then once you cut the cord to cable TV shit gets real. The amount of drug company advertising on prime-time TV is obscene.

Same thing happened to my wife and I like OP the other day. We were at Sonic getting some burgers when an ad for Sonic popped up on her android facebook feed as we were sitting there. It was creepy.

I cut the cable TV cord like 10 years ago. I sometimes hang out at my sisters to visit, and they have cable. The commercials are so weird to watch. Yea, all the drug ads are weird, but also how much they insult the intelligence of the watcher. Its just surreal to see.

The world is mental.

I can't stand the commercials. All of them. It's getting to the point where you are basically forced to watch super loud obnoxious ads. They need to invent adblock for TV already.

Leave your phone on overnight while playing a spanish radio station nearby, youll quickly get spanish ads.

I will have to try this!

I'm quite sure i read an article about Facebook using location based ads. So if your near a sonic, like you mentioned, then sonic ads will pop up. I always have my location services turned off. Lemme try and find the sauce though.

No joke, I turn off the location setting when leaving the house.

Wow, I was browsing and got an ad from my service provider! zomg!!

For real. Now when I want to see pro trump(fascist) bull shit I just look what canstopwhitey is posting or I go to the Donald and see who Mussolini is recruiting today.

Never ever use the FB app.

Even if you don't care about your personal security, I wouldn't use it just for the fact their app is a huge battery hog.

Amen

Even if you don't use the app it still happens

how? doubt apple has given facebook.com access to the entire OS through the browser.

to be clear, the claim is that the FB app regularly listens to conversations you have while it is running (even in the background), and tailors ads and content to match whatever "is currently on your mind"

Siri and possibly even using facebook just on your browser.

And if you do never ever say 'donkey cock cheese' within earshot of your phone.

That is my street name.

The Facebook app listens to you.

It most likely does but you do realise the Clinton's bought out snopes.

source?

It was "creepy" since its inception. It's literally a site for leering creeps and exhibitionists.

Once they turned it into 2 apps I was like uhhh wtf? Facebook and Facebook messenger???? Spyware5000 is more like it.

Divest yourself from Facebook. It is not a service worth your time.

Delete your facebook.

How many fucking times do people have to be told to stop using facebook?

Two things to do: STOP watching TV (if you must, there are movies/shows on internet, and for goodness sake don't get your news from American TV!)

and

STOP using facebook. FB tracks whole society segments for research purposes - it is extremely valuable to see what they like, what they buy, their circle of "Friends" etc.

If you weren't aware, the Facebook app on your phone, when it's open, it turns on the microphone. You are being recorded.

Also, even if you don't hit send, everything you type into the text boxes on the site, THEY RECORD IT. EVEN IF YOU DON'T HIT SEND.

Facebook is nothing less than a giant spy platform. STOP USING FACEBOOK!

Spoiler: it has ALWAYS been creepy since its inception

Spooky might be even more accurate.

Actually if you read the TOS it's actually exactly in line with what they do.

What I meant is that Facebook is likely a proxy, either directly or indirectly, for intelligence agencies like the CIA and NSA - AKA a proxy of spooks, and thus you can say the site is "spooky".

Again if you read the TOS they openly sell all this information. It's not so secret that intelligence agencies need it as a proxy, the NSA has access to the main feed of all communications in and out of the US already.

I'm not disputing you, it was just a play on words on my part.

But I do think that the majority of facebook users would be shocked and/or incredulous if you told them their facebook data was being used to create a playground for intel agents, propagandists, marketers, and social engineers (among others) - despite how obvious it is to you and I.

I stopped using facebook when i chatted with someone and talked bout a name for her character in a novel. I said something like "Shanene Corea" and like 5 min later the message popped up and got asked when i know the person "Shanene Corea" and want her as friend. Facebook filter everything

This has happened to me. I have screenshots actually but I don't think I should post them.

Anyway my bf and I were talking about those cheddar biscuits from red lobster and while scrolling through my feed Amazon ad pops up about buying said biscuits. Freaked us both out, I de activated my Facebook. Except EVERY APP is connected through it...

Lol. You're a fool for using FB.

It scans your feed for key words in order to suggest pages and products you might like as well as people you might know. It says it in the disclaimer when you sign up and its done it since the beginning. I don't get why people seem to constantly think this is a new spy feature. Its how they make money. Its a god damn free app, how exactly do you think they make money? They push products and apps on you based on your likes which is gleaned from you freely posting everything on their searchable site. Not really creepy. Google does it too. So does yahoo. Its the same nonsense in a different format.

Thank you! I usually can respect this sub, but the ignorant paranoia is strong in this thread. If you have a cell phone, smart or not, it's tracking you. Having the FB app doesn't change shit. If you go off the grid and live like Omish people then you probably won't be tracked quite as much. If you're going to live in the modern world, this is part of it now. Get over it and get on with your lives.

I tend to agree, because it's not like Facebook is the only app that can eavesdrop in on you. If they want, the NSA could tap many other apps that have permission to access your microphone and the data could be collected that way.

Of course I'm all for privacy, but since so few people are really up in arms about it, we need to instead find ways to set our focus on where it needs to be, and devise ways to ensure the invasions don't affect us.

I deleted the app and the messenger app, but i still use facebook on my browser on my mobile device. And guess what?!?! I still see adds popping up about the recent subjects i just talked about. It's not the FB app, It's your smart phone.

Even using it on your browser will send and receive data from your phone to their servers

We all know exactly what's going on. Stop logging in.

Interesting

This has happened multiple times to me as well :/

Delete it. Should have done that years ago.

People I bump into once or twice, and may be sent one text to pop up on "People you might know." all the time, I find that weird.

DUDE. The same thing happened to me. A girlfriend of mine was TALKING to me about buying an august birthstone ring for her boy friend, and showing me the rings on her phone. Not once did i open my phone or search anything during this convo. A couple days later facebook puts up ads about august birthstones...rings... I also got a couple emails for it.

Mind you it was april.

I turned siri off ever since then and started wearing tinfoil on my head and not speaking.

I'm wondering if you fake your death on facebook, do they stop tracking and manipulating you?

They'll probably send someone to kill you

Been cable free 1 yrs. Never felt better. Been FB free 6 months. My mind feels free and uncluttered.

Every few weeks I'm being asked to follow mark zuckerberg. Unsolicited. No matter how many times I refuse.

So i just found out about facebook listening in on you and ive said it a few times out loud. After that my suggested post and advertisement is not even close to anything ive said or looked up. They know i know...

No Facebook = no tinder/bumble... It's become a necessary evil :)

I use it the Gentile way: 50 friends, minimal likes, and don't give 2 shits if my account is suspended or deleted.

It is Jewbook. Recognize.

Facebook, Myspace, social media in general is creepy and always has been since its inception. Spying and targeted advertising notwithstanding, it's creepy in its most basic concept, and the people who use it are morons.

I think I saw the story on here, a guy has a conversation with a friend outdoors. His friend brings up the term Beard Oil. He had never heard of beard oil before, not ever. After the finish the conversation he goes home. Within a short period of time he gets on Facebook. First thing he is presented with is an ad for beard oil. Mind you he had never even heard the term until an hour before. He hasn't used his phone but does realize it was in his pocket during the conversation. I see all the tech firms are coming out with a version of Amazon Echo. That is obviously an attempt to get more listening devices in homes, you might have left your phone in another room, NSA problem solved. Don't worry about getting off Facebook we still got you. The real problem is Google. Literally everything you do goes through them. You can't really opt out of Google.

Officially deleted mine just now, you've all inspired me.

big brother is always watching

Same thing has happened to me on multiple occasions when using no google search , even tho my mic is turned off ( as much as can be with a smart phone these days ) .

Creeps me out on the reg.

That is plausible.

Mobile? Either way, it's a "feature" you can turn off. If that even works.

I have it turned off, that does nothing.

on iOS there isn't even an option for facebook in the microphone privacy settings. We can only presume it's hardcoded in, and the permissions are allowed by Apple at the OS level.

Even if you don't care about your personal security, I wouldn't use it just for the fact their app is a huge battery hog.

And if you do never ever say 'donkey cock cheese' within earshot of your phone.

Even if you don't use the app it still happens

Good thing I don't talk to anyone but myself... >.>