I know Phones dont listen but....
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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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yes, they listen to everything
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Prove your extraordinary claim.
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As I stated, not my phone, I dont get this stuff happen to me personally
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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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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.
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If you think your Apple phone isn't listening to you, I have some seaside real estate I'd like to sell you in Montana.