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Your phone isn't secretly listening to you, but the truth is more disturbing

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369 points zeech | 1 comments | 26 Apr 25 00:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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intended ◴[26 Apr 25 17:23 UTC] No.43805450[source]▶
What rot.

Here’s a simple experiment I ran and still works.

Back in the day there was a truly ghastly add for ear wax removal that showed up on YouTube in the UK.

In an experiment, and prank, I told two of my close friends about this, and how this horrid advert would kill my appetite when it came up.

And then I made it a point to repeat “ear wax removal” loudly several times.

Sure enough. A day later my dear friend messaged me with something on the lines of “I hate you”

Their phones were Android and iOS. I believe it was the Android user suffered.

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1. paulcole ◴[26 Apr 25 18:01 UTC] No.43805754[source]▶
This is why “my phone is listening and I can prove it” is such a good shibboleth for lack of critical thinking skills.

Can you not see all the biases and fallacies in your own comment?