Posted on 03/22/2019 12:34:25 PM PDT by Twotone
HAVE you ever been talking about a pair of trainers or holiday destination, and then suddenly seen an advert for that precise thing pop up on social media?
Us too. As incredible as it sounds, it might be because our phones are secretly spying on us.
It's a question I've been asking for a while after seeing adverts for things I've been talking about - but not searching - popping up on my phone.
While we are all used to targeted ads - seeing pictures of things we've just searched for appearing in ad spaces on the websites we visit after - many people think advertisers and phone companies are taking this one step further.
If voice recognition apps like Siri and Bixby are always listening for commands, is it really beyond the realm of possibility that they are also sending ads our way based on what we're talking about?
While tech giants including Facebook and Apple vehemently deny they are using phones to listen into customers' conversations and then sell the data onto advertisers, I wasn't so sure I believed them.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
I have assumed this to be the situation since way back in the seventies when my wife and I were the target of phone taps from more than one source and being later confronted face to face with questions that could be based only on phone conversations.
Alexa, put me on the nut-job conspiracy ping list, please.
I’m not saying anything about ‘1984’ because, after all, it’s not 1984.
It’s 2019. See? Nothing to worry about.
Everything is fine. The pilot and the co-pilot are fine, just fine. Free to pursue a life of religious fulfillment.
Turn the damned thing off. Simple.
Speak up they can’t hear you when you whisper
If you own an Android phone or tablet, check your settings regularly.
There is a setting called ‘Advertisement ID’ or similar. Reset it regularly and turn it off regularly..............it gets turned back on during updates....................
Even paranoids can have real enemies.......Henry Kissinger...........
This is news to you?
Oooo. Had an android update today. Will check it.
You : “ I wonder if their listening to me”
Alexa: “it’s they’re”
You’d have to pull the batteries, first, and let the stored energy bleed off (if there’s something like capacitors in there).
“Turn the damned thing off. Simple.”
You only THINK its off.
Its still.....listening...
This has happened to me a couple of times. I complained about my shoulder, and adds for shoulder pillows popped up. I said something about a hernia, and lawsuit ads for hernia mesh popped up.
lol
Not just the phones but the cameras too.
“Turn the damned thing off. Simple.”
Sorry, not so fast Sherlock; due to Federal rule the phones remain receiving data even when turned off.
And, you know, people say I’m crazy for believing this, but I believe robots are stealing my luggage.
I think a lot of the Android updates are fake. Just to screw with peoples’ privacy settings......
They're stealing my socks from the laundry, one at a time no less.
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