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Drew S. said:
A similar thing happened to my wife once when I mentioned something sports related to her and then she started getting ads for the topic in question. She has zero interest in sports and never looks at sports related stuff on her phone. This was way too specific to be randomly generated too.
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Because it also tracks by your home internet as well. If two people are using the same home wifi, I'm guessing the profiles are intentionally overlapped.

It's perfectly reasonable and profitable.
 
aparch said:
I am honestly surprised that searching Google for "NASCAR driver named Junior" and Martin Truex, Jr. was what appeared first.
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My search was "top nascar drivers 2021". Kyle Larson was too generic so I went with second place, figuring there's not a lot of Martin Truex Jr's running around.
 
The Sicatoka said:
You're right. Can't happen.

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/amazons-alexa-never-stops-listening-to-you/
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Those are the recordings you've authorized Amazon to make. After the wake word. This makes up may a few minutes of recordings per day in an average house. Not the constant stream you're proposing. And it's certainly not streaming all of this 24/7 across hundreds of millions of devices. If this were true, someone by now would have monitored all bandwidth usage through their home network and discovered this constant streaming of data from their devices. It just doesn't happen. This would have been blown wide open, far too many people are watching these devices waiting to write that story.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
Because it also tracks by your home internet as well. If two people are using the same home wifi, I'm guessing the profiles are intentionally overlapped.

It's perfectly reasonable and profitable.
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We were in the car and I wondered out loud about something very specific. It wasn’t even around buying anything either.

I was just doing some digging and I don’t think Facebook or Google are doing it, it’s random third party advertisers we’ve never heard of.
 
Drew S. said:
We were in the car and I wondered out loud about something very specific. It wasn’t even around buying anything either.

I was just doing some digging and I don’t think Facebook or Google are doing it, it’s random third party advertisers we’ve never heard of.
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I would only buy this if it were Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Apple, or Amazon (I'm sure I'm missing some here). There aren't many that have the infrastructure.

On the other hand, if it were local data processing, i'm guessing Apple and Samsung would have seen massive battery drains relative to lab testing and addressed that. It just doesn't seem plausible. Unless the gov't was behind it and gagged them. But again, we're getting into some pretty crazy unproven theories here.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
I would only buy this if it were Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Apple, or Amazon (I'm sure I'm missing some here). There aren't many that have the infrastructure.

On the other hand, if it were local data processing, i'm guessing Apple and Samsung would have seen massive battery drains relative to lab testing and addressed that. It just doesn't seem plausible. Unless the gov't was behind it and gagged them. But again, we're getting into some pretty crazy unproven theories here.
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If I were to do it, I'd do as much local filtering as possible (meaning on device, tucked in apps or OS) to shrink what gets sent back. I'd spool up what was mined and put out a short burst data package on off hours (when traffic is low and the unit is on recharge power, not battery).

RE: "battery drains relative to lab testing" ... What if the lab testing was done with 'whatever' running so it's just normal baseline battery usage to the end user.
 
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If anyone wants to watch what I am doing at my comp most days they are more than welcome. Not sure it will be all that exciting or worth their time.
 
The Sicatoka said:
Sidebar regarding folks not realizing how tracked/monitored we are:

The most liberal neighbor I have was oblivious to the phone/camera/GPS she carries with her monitoring her. I told her to spend a couple minutes talking about how she's always wanted to attend a NASCAR race and how she thinks it'd be great fun, with her phone in the room. (Hint: she wouldn't be caught dead at any race track.) Next time she opened a browser on her phone one of the ads was for ... NASCAR! 8-o
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CNN is saying they are hearing that Nazi Barbie Its Just Jared are distancing themselves from Trump...
 
Normally I agree but Trump and his crew having been throwing Jared under the bus for months...plus apparently he is more unhinged than usual these days.
 
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