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I was talking about youtube. They do listen to show more relevant videos. I live in a very quiet household and if we say something out loud low and behold it wi

• gambiting 5y ago
  Again, anecdotes are not data. YouTube is extremely good at guessing things you might be interested in, you could try being completely mute in your household and then after a week you will have to arrive at only one of two conclusions 1) YouTube can read minds and they know what you just thought about 2) with statistical data from literally billions of people it's not so weird to guess what you might be thinking about and show you a video about it. Again, if they(your phone? Watch? Toaster?) were listening someone would have found some evidence by now, a trace of voice recordings being sent or even something that looks like it might be voice recordings. Yet we have zero. It's not happening, the much easier and much more probable explanation is that we're already tracked through every online service we ever touch, but also we are linked to people we live with or people we interact with, and for a company that possesses exabytes of data it can analyse it's easier to trawl that than try to sneak out voice recordings out of your phone.