Phones are spying on us.

35  2018-04-03 by William_Harford

Watched shark tank on tv a couple days ago and have been getting all different kinds of Kevin O’Leary ads ever since on every website I use. Our phones are spying on us.

39 comments

FOIA vault 7

It's not even a conspiracy at this point.

I have a conversation too loud and planes with their callsigns blocked seem to begin flying over my house.

The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon

Not sure why you are just writing it off as that. It's a known fact that phone apps make use of the microphone for targeted ads.

If its a known fact than how is that a conspiracy?

Did you seriously just ask how phone apps spying on you is a conspiracy? Maybe the fact that the government has access to that information as well?

You said it was a "Known Fact." I was under the impression those that used this sub reddit knew Cell phones were no more the tracking/listening devices and that all information on the internet is monitored.

Known facts can still be intertwined with conspiracies. Apparently OP did not know this fact. Now they do. Have a good one.

It’s still a conspiracy. This isn’t r/superconspiracies

Apologies, I dont think I belong on this sub. Even clicked on the r/superconspiracies and it doesn't exist. Have a good day.

Am I experiencing it or are you experiencing it with my post?

You are experiencing it. Because if your phone is usually around you then it is always listening and producing ads from what it hears. You just happen to notice it this time and not the others. O'Leary triggers something more in your mind than the other stuff.

I’ve noticed things in the past like if I look at a product on amazon I will see ads for that product but this is the first time Ive noticed this where I believe my phone is listening to me.

2 shadowbans, anyone?

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There are 2 comments that won't come up on this post, althugh the number of comments listed is at 9 (10 after I post this)

Its possible those users are shadowbanned, which is why they aren't coming up.

They were the first 2 comments on this comment. I read them and after leaving page they were lost. I still can see them in my message queue tho. I found it strange also. They weren’t offensive and didn’t break any rules.

Are they? What I mean is are they really phones? Everyone I know keeps their smart phones in their pockets, right next to their ball cancer. But I rarely if ever see anyone actually making a phone call with them.

i thought we all already knew that?

Just more proof. After what happened with Facebook this week losing millions maybe we can keep up the trend. I don’t believe we’ll stop it but at least we can slow it down.

It didn't need more proof..

Who the fuck are you? Mark Zuckerberg?

Its fairly evident this was a 'confirmed' 'conspiracy', even in the mainstream.

Has anyone captured these packets in their Network yet? I'll believe it when someone decodes the packet and can show their speech in there

So it’s a confirmed conspiracy. This sub isn’t r/unconfirmedconsiracies

its not proof?

I had a targeted advertisement a while back for something I never searched for and never discussed ever. A plastic box with a bunch of drawers. But my laptop has a built in web cam and it was pointing at the box. The cam has been taped over ever since.

Hadn't seen a relative in months and see him at a reunion, so we meet for lunch to talk family in general, and just bs a bit about all the fucked-up clowns in our family. And in the course of discussion, he briefly mentions how his wife is considering getting bunion surgery, etc , etc, out of the blue. I have no FB or any type of that shit activated on my iphone whatsoever.

That next morning, as I'm browsing the internet at like 6 am, my ad-feed is riddled with bunion surgery ads.

I was at work looking up a medication for a client on a computer I've never used to log onto FB. I got recommendations for that exact same medication when I got home later that night. I do log in to the computer in the back occasionally, I know they run of the same network but it It was just odd but hadn't happened more than once.

Maybe it's more of a IP address/network thing?

My friend and I were talking about a specific joke in a specific video. The video was in a set of videos related to our mutual interest of Super Smash Bros, but neither of us watch the series. My friend opened his YouTube app and the first recommended video was the one we discussed.

I was singing a song that I remembered and when I opened YouTube on my phone it was suggested to me.

Wooo. 😱

I pick up people's phones and say avacado into them. They look at me like i'm crazy. It's funny when they mention they are getting avacado ads

Avocados themselves are a conspiracy. Makes sense that specific buzzword is going to have a guaranteed effect. I've seen people try it with "cat food" and other common items, too.

Did you think your phone wasn't spying on you two years ago or something?

Shit,my girlfriend and I have been freaking out, thinking she is Prego. We haven't written anything or searched for anything since it has just been the usual tall between us. Next thing I know, Google survey ask me if I will have a life changing event in the near future. Such as having a baby.

even worse, they are also killing us with radiation

I told my dad that his fashion sense is really boring, he went on about how much he loves his plain old Levi’s pants that he was buying at walmart. When I got home and turned on the tv YouTube started playing an ad for Levi’s, I’ve never received ads like this before. I’m 100% convinced that the iPhone X listens in.

Unlikely your phone is spying on you for that ad. If you have a digital set top box all of the programming you watch is logged and that data is sold. I used to work as a developer at a large cable/satellite company, this was a pretty large revenue stream. If you logged into that set top box with Facebook or there are other personally identifiable characteristics belonging to your cable account (like phone number) and your google or Facebook account, then these relationships between two seemingly different and isolated datasets can be easily made and then you’ll be subject to ad retargeting just about everywhere. A good rule of thumb is, if it has an internet connection, your data points are being logged and analyzed and if its worth anything at all, it’s being sold as well.

The other day, while talking to my sister in the morning, I mentioned the name of a business, later that day I opened Instagram and the first thing I got was an add for said business. Yet no one believes me when I tell them our phones are listening to what we talk.

Obviously

Mine never has. Hint: Turn off your "location." Block your front phone cam with something when it sits... Y'all are over-paranoid!

Android?

Avocados themselves are a conspiracy. Makes sense that specific buzzword is going to have a guaranteed effect. I've seen people try it with "cat food" and other common items, too.