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Ganoncrotch said:
did you know about this regarding google knowing things about us... it's fairly nuts, but how a phone will only react when it hears a phrase like "okay google" but all the other voice it listens to as well and basically when you install apps on the phone they can trigger different reactions to different conversations they listen in on, it's fairly scary but sadly it's the price of technology, we are now walking around with a device collecting advertising data for companies which is worth way too much to pass up on.
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/wjbzzy/your-phone-is-listening-and-its-not-paranoia
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With this in mind, I decided to try an experiment. Twice a day for five days, I tried saying a bunch of phrases that could theoretically be used as triggers. Phrases like I’m thinking about going back to uni and I need some cheap shirts for work. Then I carefully monitored the sponsored posts on Facebook for any changes.
I'd never seen this ad for "quality clothing" until I told my phone I needed shirts
The changes came literally overnight. Suddenly I was being told mid-semester courses at various universities, and how certain brands were offering cheap clothing. A private conversation with a friend about how I’d run out of data led to an ad about cheap 20 GB data plans. And although they were all good deals, the whole thing was eye-opening and utterly terrifying."
Try it yourself, me and a buddy were talking about various cars we loved the designs of and then when he went to his phone the adverts in facebook were telling him about the local Audi dealership, very much hadn't googled any of the cars we were just having a conversation about them, his phone just decided it would see if he wanted to splash out on what he was talking about.
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Really? OMG
I never turn those voice assistants on, tho.
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It doesn't matter, the voice assistants being turned off just means the phone wont react to you saying "ok google" try it yourself sometime, it's funny how fast things like facebook will change adverts if you talk about some really strange subject, go for something you don't normally talk about, say a brand of cars or doing a certain activity, one that stood out to me was when I was talking about going for glasses or contacts, every damn add on my phone was about getting laser eye surgery for the next 2 weeks.
Apps will listen to "non trigger" data, was a big part of the finds of that article, non trigger data = everything you say except for "okay google"
