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>they don’t use the mic as many suspect Unfortunately, there's no way to confirm that since the only phone out there with a hardware microphone switch is the P
by weberer 4y ago
>they don’t use the mic as many suspect
Unfortunately, there's no way to confirm that since the only phone out there with a hardware microphone switch is the Pinephone.
- capitalsigma 4y agoYou would expect it to consume quite a lot of power and/or bandwidth if the mic was always on.
- treis 4y agoThey do it for music identification these days.
- smegsicle 4y agowhich is such a halfhearted excuse too- "why are you randomly sampling audio around me and phoning home about it?" "uhh.... shazaam?"
- Rebelgecko 4y agoI thought that was all done on-device?
- treis 4y agoI'm not sure. Just pointing out that it doesn't necessarily have to use a lot of power or bandwidth to have the mic always on.
- euos 4y agoYou can try fingerprinting, etc. Ridiculous amount of effort to implement it. For little benefit.
- jphoward 4y agoBut isn't it always on for "Hey Siri"?
- euos 4y agoImagine the computational resources needed to track microphone for all Android users.
- gabereiser 4y agoWe actually can by disassembling the YouTube.ipa, examining the calls, and checking for AVAudioSessionDataSourceDescription objects. Tracing their lifetimes. It’s the same method Apple uses to check for “unauthorized internal API use” people get busted for. We can also replace the AVAudioSession class with our own proxy to examine calls.
- weberer 4y agoYou'd have to disassemble Google Play Services, not the Youtube app.
- gabereiser 4y agoOP said he/she was on iOS.
- kyriakos 4y agoAnd not using the app at all, just browsers
- gabereiser 4y agoAh right, missed that part. In this case it’s rather easy as Safari will respect your settings. Just deny microphone access. Under settings->safari->Microphone which is down under “settings for websites”
- kyriakos 4y agoit just makes it less likely that a microphone was used instead of other information such as IP and location.