I'm yet to see anything other than anecdotal evidence that proves that phones listen to what you say around them and serve ads based on that. the only thing I've seen was a research performed a few years ago that proved the opposite.
this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2023
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If it were actually happening it would be so easy to prove. That's not to say that always-listening devices aren't a huge privacy violation with the potential to record and monitor your conversations, but most of the things that people think are evidence of this are just them being monitored in other ways. For instance someone has a conversation with someone about something, never searches for it on their phone and sees adverts about it, but ignores the fact that the other person might have searched for it and whatever is monitoring their searches also has a link between the two of them.
For me it also happens constantly with things like the crossword, which obviously can't be listening.
Links between folks is part of it, but a lot is just ordinary coincidence.
The general consensus among more informed people than me is that they don't even need to listen in, they get enough accurate information from tracking everything else to not even need to do something as resource-intensive as permanently listening in.
yes, that too.
Consider swapping the link with one that doesn't have a tracker
https://twitter.com/CryptoTweetie/status/1725885211823468839
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Oh the irony
I've played around with this a few times now and I talked about getting a trench coat for a good day with my wife and now I just won't stop getting ads for long coats...
Honestly it's ridiculously invasive.
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