• go $fsck yourself
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    229 days ago

    That’s not how that works. Stop spreading this nonsense.

    • @[email protected]
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      3429 days ago

      Google, Amazon and Facebook aren’t dogs that sniff you through your phone? Stop spreading this nonsense.

      • @[email protected]
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        2429 days ago

        That’s not what the meme says. It’s accusing the apps of having live microphone access to your phone at all times.

      • @Illuminostro
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        -229 days ago

        We don’t care about your stock price, or your dividends.

    • Random_Character_A
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      1329 days 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?

      • @[email protected]
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        2429 days 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.

    • @Ziglin
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      -329 days 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…

      • @[email protected]
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        729 days ago

        The database of fingerprints is actually quite small and stored locally. You could have looked this up in less time than it took you to spout bullshit.

        • @Ziglin
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          126 days ago

          I counted this out based on the number of obscure songs I had seen, making me think it would have to be gigabytes of names alone. This still doesn’t stop Google from sending this to their servers as long as it has network permissions.

        • @Illuminostro
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          -529 days ago

          Who the fuck said anything about fingerprints, literal or figurative. There’s absolutely no way that a database of every song ever recorded is stored on an Android phone. Wake up.

      • @Emerald
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        429 days 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.

        • @Ziglin
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          126 days ago

          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.