One of Facebook's alleged marketing partners explained how it listens to users' smartphone microphones and advertises to them accordingly.
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Android only solution, I think. Admittedly I don’t know I iPhone very well.
Anecdotally, it’s not even a solution. I’ve run into “coincidental” ads without having the FB app installed (visiting FB via browser).