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| Drydess:
--- Quote from: hillkill on April 19, 2017, 08:44:17 PM ---been like a year since i've gotten high lol. i don't own or would i ever own an echo or the google equivalent. in this day and age, almost anything can be exploited by hackers. --- End quote --- sure but would google honestly go through the trouble of hacking into your x, manually listening to you, finding ads, etc just to put it on a search result --- Quote from: Ipquarx on April 19, 2017, 08:50:27 PM ---If this is actually happening, it's likely one of the apps you have installed. There are certain apps which will monitor your microphone and send information that it hears about your conversations to the apps servers, and will then sell it to third parties. I seem to recall the Facebook app doing this if allowed access to the microphone, but don't quote me on that. If you don't have microphone privileges enabled for any of your apps, then it's probably just a coincidence. --- End quote --- ya theres really no reason to activate mic privileges for things like facebook or chrome or anything |
| hillkill:
--- Quote from: Ipquarx on April 19, 2017, 08:50:27 PM ---If this is actually happening (We can't really verify this for sure), it's likely one of the apps you have installed. There are certain apps which will monitor your microphone and send information that it hears about your conversations to the apps servers, and will then sell it to third parties. I seem to recall the Facebook app doing this if allowed access to the microphone, but don't quote me on that. If you don't have microphone privileges enabled for any of your apps, then it's probably just a coincidence. --- End quote --- iirc you have to agree to all permissions before installing an app. you can't disable privileges i believe. --- Quote from: Drydess on April 19, 2017, 08:51:39 PM --- sure but would google honestly go through the trouble of hacking into your x, manually listening to you, finding ads, etc just to put it on a search result --- End quote --- not worried about google per say, i'm worried about in the future these things being hacked is going to become big. i don't want to be a part of that. call me paranoid idc |
| Ipquarx:
--- Quote from: hillkill on April 19, 2017, 09:50:48 PM ---iirc you have to agree to all permissions before installing an app. you can't disable privileges i believe. --- End quote --- You can disable permissions in the Apps menu under settings. I know this works on Android 6 and above, I forget if it's there for android 5. --- Quote from: hillkill on April 19, 2017, 09:50:48 PM ---not worried about google per say, i'm worried about in the future these things being hacked is going to become big. i don't want to be a part of that. call me paranoid idc --- End quote --- It's absolutely not bad at all to be worried about this. Privacy is an extremely important human right and you've got every right to exercise that. |
| hillkill:
i still have android 4.4.2 |
| Daswiruch:
how |
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