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I deactivated my facebook almost 7 years ago, and never looked back. Now I am considering to move away from google services, as google is getting aggressive the
by rajadigopula 9y ago
I deactivated my facebook almost 7 years ago, and never looked back. Now I am considering to move away from google services, as google is getting aggressive these days. I use nexus 6p phone and I am seeing youtube recommendations these days based on my phone conversations!
- onion2k 9y agoI use nexus 6p phone and I am seeing youtube recommendations these days based on my phone conversations! The implication of this is that Google listens in and recommends things based on your phone conversations. A much more likely explanation is that you talk on the phone about the same things you look at online, and you're making an incorrect assumption about Google's source of data.
- rajadigopula 9y agoI know what I talk on phone and what I search online. I have observed this so many times - not once. So I am confident in what I imply.
- Hasknewbie 9y agoDoing voice processing is much much more computationally expensive than scanning text, and has a much higher error rate, so it would make little sense for Google to do that. More likely explanations could be: - Your topic is a common/popular one, so it's statistically likely that Youtube mentions it. - Other people that (text-)search the same things as you tend to watch these videos (i.e. you have been put is some category or other). - You did not search for it, but your phone correspondant did, and Youtube/Google tries the same suggestions on you because you're linked (see: there are other and less costly ways for Google to be creepy!).