They can listen through your phone. And this is no paranoid CT. I have personally witnessed multiple instances, of say, discussing that I need new shoes, for example, and then the next ad I see in my browser is for shoes. It's not a coincidence when it happens several times in a week involving disparate subjects (mostly shopping but not exclusively.)
Aye. There have been numerous instances where I'll be discussing something with friends, go to Google something, and it'll be the first suggested search.
Yup, I've double checked and I have all that Google assistant shit turned off and it still happens. Be careful what you say around your phone, I guess.
I like to show off and do it for friends. "Hey man, watch this shit...." and ask them to start typing in a generic search question, and what we were talking about pops up as the first suggestion.
Mine just calls me a perv and gives me pages of pornhub links...
It's a gross invasion of privacy no matter what is being discussed. What if I were collaborating on writing a play or something and we were brainstorming ideas? Things could get crazy over totally innocent shit. That's why I'm not stepping one foot in the US until the patriot act (or whatever mutation follows) is gone. If you're not a citizen, you can be disappeared. No matter how incredibly unlikely that might be, there's not a fucking chance in hell I'm going to risk it. Who the fuck knows what I might have said that could be interpreted as something nefarious?
Agreed. I'd rather none of it be the case.
Ok so I was in my phone while in friends house....Your telling me, that some how they know the computer in front of me, which in no way is connected to my phone, somehow got the info from my phone so that song will be suggested?
Well, I can see your phone being linked to your computer. Do your notifications link up between the two? Your phone is always listening, regardless. So what your phone picked up on, your later Youtube/Google searches could pull up the same on the computer, theoretically.
I have absolutely had conversations about things that I've never looked up in my life and all of the sudden I have advertisements about them or had my search suggestions reflect the things I discussed. Just a reminder that someone is always listening.
Dude I dont sign in to youtube at all....My browser has me as Sign in since I neve sign in on it.....since I don't sign to youtube.
Did your friend play the song for you?
If you sign into Google, in your browser, let's say, you're signed into all of google, gmail, youtube, etc.
