[bearcobra]

This feels like the kind of article that will confuse folks into more confirmation bias. The claim doesn't even seem to be that Meta/Alphabet are the ones doing it, but a totally separate advertising company who would have no control over the apps from those companies.

I hate how so many people think this is how this stuff works when the actual methods are almost scarier because they don't rely on something as clear as our conversations.

[sroussey]

I think it is cox or comcast and they use TVs to listen in and Bluetooth and WiFi to ID phones. Typically in smart TVs there is an option buried deep in settings to turn this off.

Then they use this when they connect their ad system to Meta or Google.