Your phone is listening and it's not paranoia (2018)
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Re: Your phone is listening and it's not paranoia (2018)
#2They almost certainly aren’t listening to you https://mobile.twitter.com/RobertGReeve/status/1397032784703.... But the likely explanation isn’t any better imo.
Re: Your phone is listening and it's not paranoia (2018)
#3They almost certainly aren’t listening to you https://mobile.twitter.com/RobertGReeve/status/1397032784703... . But the likely explanation isn’t any better imo.
I don't buy this.
I was at a social outing some years back at pub that I had been to a number of times before with some longtime friends of mine. Somehow we got on the topic of favorite candies from childhood. I mentioned Warheads.
I hadn't had one of those in two decades, and certainly hadn't seen any ads for them in a long time.
But still, the very next day, I was getting ads for them on social media.
Everyone I have ever asked about it has a similar story.
You could whip up some kind of explanation that a friend of mine searched Warheads later. Or maybe a nearby bar patron overheard the conversation and searched for the candies.
That just seems so unlikely, though. It was a miniscule detail in a larger conversation. But in terms of retail products discussed, it was one of only a few.
Re: Your phone is listening and it's not paranoia (2018)
#4I want to believe this. But the article feels like speculation. I don't think this actually happens in practice.
Re: Your phone is listening and it's not paranoia (2018)
#5They almost certainly aren’t listening to you https://mobile.twitter.com/RobertGReeve/status/1397032784703... . But the likely explanation isn’t any better imo.
I don't buy this. I was at a social outing some years back at pub that I had been to a number of times before with some longtime friends of mine. Somehow we got on the topic of favorite candies from childhood. I mentioned Warheads. I hadn't had one of those in two decades, and certainly hadn't seen any ads for them in a long time. But still, the very next day, I was getting ads for them on social media. Everyone I ha…
Does it happen regularly?
Re: Your phone is listening and it's not paranoia (2018)
#6They almost certainly aren’t listening to you https://mobile.twitter.com/RobertGReeve/status/1397032784703... . But the likely explanation isn’t any better imo.
I don't buy this. I was at a social outing some years back at pub that I had been to a number of times before with some longtime friends of mine. Somehow we got on the topic of favorite candies from childhood. I mentioned Warheads. I hadn't had one of those in two decades, and certainly hadn't seen any ads for them in a long time. But still, the very next day, I was getting ads for them on social media. Everyone I ha…
Given the incredibly poor search results I get from Google Assistant I find the idea that the old Samsung phone is listening to my every word is plausible but should be extremely ineffective since when I am deliberately using it, it sucks.
However, if I am half way through a movie and I want to find some detail on it, it inevitably shows up within the first few search results whether I'm watching it on DVD, a blu-ray or off a streaming service or broadcast TV. The streaming service I can understand, Blu-ray player could be talking to something I guess, the other two are harder to explain since I use an old DVD player that has no networking facility.
Re: Your phone is listening and it's not paranoia (2018)
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't buy this. I was at a social outing some years back at pub that I had been to a number of times before with some longtime friends of mine. Somehow we got on the topic of favorite candies from childhood. I mentioned Warheads. I hadn't had one of those in two decades, and certainly hadn't seen any ads for them in a long time. But still, the very next day, I was getting ads for them on social media. Everyone I ha…
Given the incredibly poor search results I get from Google Assistant I find the idea that the old Samsung phone is listening to my every word is plausible but should be extremely ineffective since when I am deliberately using it, it sucks. However, if I am half way through a movie and I want to find some detail on it, it inevitably shows up within the first few search results whether I'm watching it on DVD, a blu-ray…
Maybe it’s just playing dumb?
Re: Your phone is listening and it's not paranoia (2018)
#8I like the authors attempt to experiment. It should be easy to know whether apps like Facebook are listening by only discussing topics off-line and then waiting to see if Facebook picks it up and serves related ads.
Re: Your phone is listening and it's not paranoia (2018)
#9>Because unless you’re a journalist, a lawyer, or have some kind of role with sensitive information, the access of your data is only really going to advertisers.
This is giving a lot of confidence to government law enforcement agencies, as if they are always honest, infallible and/or working in good faith. I assure you all of them are not. They're of the same human condition as everyone else with the same flaws, defects, and moral flexibility; they just have a lot more power and a lot less accountability.
Re: Your phone is listening and it's not paranoia (2018)
#10When? When will we see the stupidly obvious pattern?
When will insufferable idiots finally clue into the demonstrable fact that if it's possible, spooks are doing it?