Facebook is not listening to your offline conversations with friends, but here’s how it knows to show you ads about those convos. “If my phone is regularly in the same GPS location as another phone, they take note of that.”
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Facebook is not listening to your offline conversations with friends, but here’s how it knows to show you ads about those convos. “If my phone is regularly in the same GPS location as another phone, they take note of that.”
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