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> I believe these apps listen to conversations even when you aren’t using them. I am not alone in believing this. I have evidence of same and it may not be ju
by Lordarminius 9y ago
> I believe these apps listen to conversations even when you aren’t using them. I am not alone in believing this.
I have evidence of same and it may not be just FB and Messanger
Last week a co-worker engaged me in a discussion concerning her father-in-laws diagnosis of prostate cancer. This lasted about 20 or 30 minutes. I had my cell phone on me. I do not have FB or Messanger.
I do not deal with cancer cases at work. I did not google any information on prostate cancer. I did not send any mails pertaining to prostate cancer or any other form of cancer.
Two days later I start getting ads and suggestions for prostate cancer treatment options. How unlikely should that be?
I am trying to reproduce the effect by talking about other rare disease conditions with my phone switched on.
If the bugger is spying on me I'd like to know.
- poulsbohemian 9y agoWhat kind of phone? The rest of us might want to get in on this test too.
- Lordarminius 9y agoMotorola running the latest version of Android; but I suspect it is the google search feature that is doing the snooping.
- johnward 9y agoI have absolutely no proof but I swear this happens to me and my wife all the time. We just talk about things then end up seeing ads for them. I'm on android and she is on iOS.
- vokep 9y agoEven getting ads for related things could happen now. I'd suggest thinking of something entirely new, and begin talking about it, but make sure you do not enter that term or anything too closely related to it into any kind of text field. (or rather, only enter into text fields which should be 100% private)