• Random_Character_A@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Is it any better that their profiling is so accurate they can “appear like doing this” by just knowing what devices spend time near us?

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        3 months ago

        Yes. Phones not snooping 24/7 with a microphone is better than phones snooping 24/7 with a microphone. What kind of question is this? If you get people used to the idea that phones are always recording, people won’t be as offended when these dickhead companies actually start doing it.

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      3 months ago

      Google listens in to recognize what music playing (default on Google Pixels) this can’t be done locally without a huge database so in way or another Google is sending processed microphone data to their servers. There’s no way they can resist getting their grubby mits on that ad data…

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        3 months ago

        this can’t be done locally without a huge database

        Good thing Pixel’s have a built in database of “fingerprints” of popular songs for local processing.

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          I did not know this, it seemed way too good for that, I might have to retract some previous statements. Though I also don’t know how to verify that it doesn’t use the network as I don’t think it is available outside the default android that comes preinstalled.