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A product you were just talking about pops up in an online ad. How? Advertising algorithms are so good that they may know what you want even before you do. C…
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Yes, yes they do. My wife’s phone does this all the time, Talk about something, even random or sometimes from a tv show. In minutes she has instagram or youtube ads about the very thing.
That is because it has 100 other data points to go off of. It also compares you to everyone else.
Nope. The amount of data required for constant recording and streaming of audio would be ridiculous and would show up in analysis.
The simpler answer is that the algorithms are getting scary good.
Download Instagram and start talking about dogs and dog food and it will give you posts and ads about dog food. My friend was talking about random stuff like feet and foot fetishes the other day and you wouldn’t believe what was on their feed when they were scrolling.
The device wouldn’t necessarily have to be constantly streaming the audio to a central server. If it’s capable of hearing wake up words like “Ok Google” it’s capable of listening for other phrases and having onboard processing to relay back the results much more compressed. Whether or not this is common practice is another matter, and yes the algorithms are scary good even without eavesdropping.
Not to mention there are a lot of data points that are better. For instance, the can now if your interested in something by monitoring how long you look at it and if you click on something.
My phone’s lock screen automatically tells me the name of music being played near it that it has to be hearing through the mic.
You are right, but it is very simple for phones to convert spoken word to text and sending text information back and forth is very lightweight on data usage. So it’s not happening, but it could happen.
I disable “hey siri” so… probably not? Shouldn’t be anyway but I don’t I don’t subscribe to the idea that it is because of how good the ads lineup sometime. I’m aware of how slick advertisers are with cookies and web traffic.
I always say into the microphone of my smartphone, “I know you’re listening to me.” If they are really listening to me, they will get scared. And if not, no one will know about it.
