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does anyone ever feel like google listens to you without you knowing it?
Red Spy:
--- Quote from: Drydess on April 19, 2017, 08:26:54 PM ---literally every major corporation tracks you down for ad choice, walmart, google, apple, etc
where were you talking about blue and yellow macaws though
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Drydess:
--- Quote from: hillkill on April 19, 2017, 08:39:38 PM ---at my house
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unless you have the google version of amazon echo then theres no thesible way for them to know that
even then i hold just enough trust that those things dont track what you say but it'd be the only possible explanation unless you got high
hillkill:
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.
Insert Name Here²:
If they do, I personally don't really care if they "listen" to my voice or not, it doesn't effect me in any way.
Ipquarx:
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.