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Your phone typically isn't actually listening to you. Constantly recording and uploading that data would destroy your battery.
A lot of it is just the metadata from ads, apps, location, nearby devices etc. Your phone doesn't need to know that you were watching CNN last night. CNN knows that this IP was watching them, google knows that your phone was at that IP at that time, so it can assume you watched CNN last night.
Your phone typically isn’t actually listening to you.
It is if you have any "voice assistant" on.
Emphasis on the active part. It's listening, but passively for the keyword. The phone isn't constantly sending all the data it hears 24/7 off to someone else. But once that keyword has been activated now it's actively listening and that data is being recorded and sent.
Very convenient, that the keywords they are filtering are endless.
Really because I was just watching Colbert on YouTube and he set Siri off, and when I asked her to tell me what the last question I asked, she couldn't. But they're not always monitoring they just happen to wake up when the correct phrase is said..
It's also the voice training you do when you set up assistant. Sometimes it recognizes my voice only and once in a while a phrase on the TV will set it off as it's close to my inflections.
Also, they know your contacts. When you share links and stuff with friends they see what your friends search and sometimes assume you're interested too.
Always sanitize your links when sharing them. Look at the querystring (everything after the ?, separated by &) most of that data isn’t needed.
YouTube link? Delete the si=(value) v= is the video.
It’s irritating that YT added that. The vast majority of people have no idea, of course.
Bullshit. I read a funny comment about different types of nipples out loud to my wife the other day, literally within 24 hours I started getting ads for breast pumps. I use pihole at home, but when I'm out and not on my DNS, I get ads sometimes. It absolutely added ads for that, you'll never convince me otherwise.