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I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone (simonwillison.net)
submitted 5 days ago by Olap to c/technology
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Not my title! I do think we are being listened to. And location tracked. And it's being passed on to advertisers. Is it apple though? Probably not is my take away from this article, but I don't trust plenty of others, and apple still does

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[–] ByteJunk 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's the most unlikely story I've heard in a minute... Even assuming there're some deep rooted kernel level shenanigans, which no one has found yet, how would you fiddling with some settings expose that?

Probably just got a dropped call, and it resumed the playlist in shuffle, I've had it happen where the music comes out as if in a phone call (messes up frequencies) for a few seconds before it goes back to normal. Occam's razor and all

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Believe what you want, I don't really care. The whole connection bugged out and the car's infotainment system including android auto became unresponsive. There was no call, it wasn't shuffle and it was definitely his voice, not the music playing. Especially since there was only the whispered singing. No other instruments at all.

[–] AtariDump 0 points 4 days ago

I believe it was sunspots that caused bit flips on the phone CPU and regurgitated data from the L5 cache. /s