I heard a big one is GPS. If your mate just came back from Asia and talks to you about it and you then see adds. Its because if the location proximity to him, not the conversation. They just assume you would talk about it
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null@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
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.
Wanderer@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Cosmicomical@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ah ok, thank you for clarifying, that’s not creepy at all
Bizarroland@kbin.social 1 month ago
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.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 month ago
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.
Switchy85@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Mine does that too. It’s actually all done on device with a special chip and it periodically updates a database on the phone with digital fingerprints for songs. You’ll notice sometimes it’s just wrong or thinks fan noises are music playing.
kettle@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Yeah, my chip does the same thing. Sometimes I think I hear distant faint music in the background of fan noise, but turns out ir was just the fan.
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The amount of data required for constant recording and streaming of audio would be ridiculous
Relax, it is no big deal. Less than 1 GB for 24 hours of constant recording in good quality.
Even much less with compression (mp3 etc) and a little loss of audio quality. And if you leave away all the silence, I guess you can tune it down to a few MB.
That’s one harddisk for a year.
SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Processing is done on the device and only text is uploaded. Streaming audio would also be easy to detect.
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 month ago
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.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
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.
Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
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.