I know Phones dont listen but....
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Google does listen, what do you mean?
They have a feature in form of their voice assistant to make sure it can -
No no, they listen. How do you think the "Hey Google" feature works? It has to listen for the key phrase. Might as well just listen to everything else.
I spent some time with a friend and his mother and spoke in Spanish for about two hours while YouTube was playing music. I had Spanish ads for 2 weeks after that.
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If you are worried about it then do something about it there are alot of things you can do to improve your privacy. If that's not the case then forget it
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Other folks in the area searched it, and bluetooth nearby as well as wifi tracking put them all in the same place. Same as old mate with the Spanish comment, he was hanging around in an area with folks who regularly look at stuff in Spanish.
What you think might be spontaneous isn't.
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yes, they listen to everything
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Prove your extraordinary claim.
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wasn't there a thing recently where it became clear they do listen?
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This stuff isn't magic. It's tech. These things can be proved by analyzing network traffic.
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The amount of processing power that would be needed to listen the output of billions of devices 24/7 just to push ads wouldn't make economic sense.
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As I stated, not my phone, I dont get this stuff happen to me personally
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Very valid point! Clearly people cheating!
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I hadnt heard of this if so
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Yes I'm aware they have the feature but as others stated, listening 24/7 would require enormous levels of compute power that even google wouldnt see as economical
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What's scary is that tracking tech is so good they don't even need to listen to you to know what you've been talking/thinking about.
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A whistleblower from apple showed that they do listen and have whole lawyer client conversations were recorded at apple. I dont know if that was what the commenter before was hinting at.
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Your phone listens for the phrase "Hey Google" and uses little processing power to do so. If it was listening to everything and processing that information, your battery would die incredibly fast. We're talking charging your phone multiple times a day even if you weren't using it for anything else.
As someone else mentioned in another commend, being near Spanish speakers' phones, Bluetooth/Wifi tracking are what Google is using to track you. They search Google in Spanish, Google can tell you spend time with them, Google thinks you speak Spanish.
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I'm an Android/Google/Pixel person. I have a Google Home speaker at work (self-employed barber/stylist) and was playing old classic country music a few weeks ago. My client mentioned that her husband's favorite artist is Porter Wagoner and his favorite song is Cold Hard Facts Of Life. Well, guess what the very next song was? And now, ever since then, I've been inundated with that song. It plays constantly.
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Iirc correctly maybe it wasn’t picked up on a mic but if your friends all googled it after, it’s likely their devices and accounts were already associated with you, so online services will think maybe you’d bet interested in it too.
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Or just looking up the answer afterwards.
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Your fellow competitors did not neccesarily perform the search when they were at the pub. It could be a the john when they got home. Your dataprofile is still tied to them right now.
