[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by MGlitch

Meanwhile Facebook is serving me adds for rings, bracelets, necklaces, and (I kid you not) Japanese style pants.

I generally wear jeans bought from a local mom and pop shop. I don’t wear jewelry unless you count an Apple Watch with a silicone band as jewelry.

Twitter serves me up sports news, and gambling sites. I don’t care about sports beyond a very basic yay home team, and I don’t gamble legally or otherwise.

Google does serve me up some relevant ads on occasion though generally Google.com is more often just the generic Google logo with empty search under it. All the ads are for things I’ve spent a decent amount of time searching and looking at online.

Amazon emails me reconditions for items after I’ve purchased them or if I’ve spent a good chunk of time searching and looking at specific results.

I’m not exactly quivering in my boots here, if there’s some grand conspiracy its left arm doesn’t know what its right arm is doing, it’s got two left feet, and it’s blindfolded and gagged.

Read my earlier posts. I have six Google speakers and one Alexa Show (it was a gift. I'd prefer the Google one). My point is just that Google and Alexa listen to you at all times, whether you speak the keyword or no.

I don’t have any of the various smart speakers, but I do use Siri on my iPhone from time to time. I’d presume this operates under a similar enough fashion that I should see some results if they’re using it to spy on me. If they are I guess they’re not interested in selling me anything or can’t figure out what they can sell me based on what they might have captured.

I'm not an Apple fan, but in this case Apple doesn't make their money from ads (like Google) or sell you crap (well, except for more Apple crap). And Apple's figured out they can make a big deal out of protecting user's privacy.