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That in itself is concerning. Everyone is arguing that no company would invest resources to voice to text everything. But Google does it in YouTube.
What a hilarious oversight with that experiment lol! He must have felt stupid when it was pointed out to him.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
genuine controlled experiment to determine whether Google was listening to him through his microphone
When this was pointed out to him he retracted his statements
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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