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Marketer sparks panic with claims it uses smart devices to eavesdrop on people (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 29 points 2 years ago (1 child)

My sister snd I had a conversation in a terrace about flower seeds to gift my mother. Neither has google assitant or any other voice search app acrivated. We both started getting seed ads. Pretty damning

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Do you know your sister didn't search for seeds?

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It’s rather Orwellian to me that this kind of logic counts as justification.

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