Like, we all know they’re listening , but can we provide proof?

My friend was complaining about all the new super surveillance that will be government required in cars after 2027, and I said to him dude you have a stock android, you use every AI slop feature, you use a smart TV on your unsecured network, and uses x every day. They have everything they could possibly need on him. Oh and he posts questionable things to fb daily under his real name.

  • utopiah@lemmy.ml
    10·
    4 hours ago

    The very notion of proof implies that you can reproduce it. So I would suggest you forget what anybody here or elsewhere said. Instead, you :

    • get a cheap phone (so typically Android)
    • reset/format/flash it to a blank state
    • make a new testing account on it
    • use for random browsing, using app, etc and you log your history, namely what did you actually do AND what ads you actually see
    • test for something outside of your new habits with a search query, then log and compare again, seeing the threshold to change
    • repeat the last step for something said using e.g. a voice assistant, log&compare
    • repeat WITHOUT explicit search, log&compare

    Yes this takes a of time but that will help you make YOUR own opinion on the matter if you genuinely care.