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You are free. http://www.steamfeed.com/silverpush-launches-cross-device-ad-targeting-with-unique-audio-beacon-technology/

>>19167 >It works like this: on the desktop side, SilverPush drops a cookie along with playing an inaudible audio, using speakers as audio beacons. The inaudible code is received and recognized on the mobile device by the software development kit that’s on the phone. This creates an immediate and accurate association between the desktop cookie and mobile device. Jesus Christ. I'm glad I'm planning to slowly switch over to operating systems like TempleOS and colorForth. It's a shame that computers are being used for these things. The only defence is to know what you're running and avoid using hardware that could be malicious in the silicon.

What the fuarrrk.

This looks like an onion piece or something

>>19167 What kind of frequency would they use? I thought most audio equipment was only good for 40Hz-20Khz.

>>19167 Well that's just fuarrrked up. If this gets widespread use, I might just move out into the wilderness because of exasperation with the general public which is okay with this bull soykaf . Looks like another reason not to use a smartphone, though. "Did you know those ad things make use of your microphone without you knowing?"

>>19194 I think apple iphone could become a decent viable mobile platform for privacy conscious individuals. They are even making a push to leverage privacy against Google: http://www.apple.com/privacy/ Using a mobile platform designed by an ad company makes me uncomfortable

>>19195 Or use cyenogen mod. Too bad Ubuntu phone kinda floundered.

This is pretty creepy. Thankfully it should be relatively easy to have software filter all human-inaudible audio from microphone/speaker I/O. Amusingly, utrasonic beacons used to track people isn't a new idea. Hell, even anime featured that idea (Railgun).

>>19195 >I think apple iphone could become a decent viable mobile platform for privacy conscious individuals. I hope for your sake you're joking. People who actually care about their privacy don't use mobile phones.

>>19195 Please be trolling.

>>19229 >YFW you realize that Apple is changing in response to both Google, the government, and the people and is becoming more and more privacy-conscious and worthwhile Though, it will take awhile for peoples' perceptions to change. Will GNU/Linux be better for privacy? Most likely. But will Apple products be better than stuff from Microsoft or Google? You bet it will. Besides, this user has the right answer: >>19218 >>19167 That's terrifying, OP. Thanks for the link! Also, I will start using >>19194 this idea to help people be more concerned about privacy.

This is excessive, most people use the same identifiable accounts on both their desktops and mobiles, so advertisements would be shown from cookies that are mutually gathered on each device yeah? Also, do people even click on ads anymore? I know there are a lot of fuarrrking morons out there, but much like how caller ID put a big wrench in telemarketing, and how people don't answer calls from numbers they don't recognize; people are becoming more and more weary of clicking random links because their myspace was phished years ago. But maybe I'm putting too much faith in people, because I don't associate with ignints...