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This.
As the article suggests: "Should you trust them not to be spying on you?" Hell no!
But we can also use freely available tools to verify this.
This is even more potent on your phone.
A lot of people seem to believe your phone is listening to you all the time and feeding you ads based on your IRL conversations.
That's not happening, and this can be easily verified even without any networking knowledge/tools by taking a look at your cell phone data bill.
Recording and uploading your mundane conversations all day long would be a huge drain on your battery and an expensive addition to your cell data bill. You would likely notice if it was happening.
Again: by all means DO NOT TRUST THESE COMPANIES, but also maybe do a little testing before assuming all private conversations are being recorded.
But my battery is shit and I’m always connected to Wi-Fi
WiFi makes it easier IMO.
It's very simple to snoop all the WiFi traffic and verify what is being sent while it's more challenging to get those details on cell data
Please do tell what is in the encrypted packets it phoned home with?
Sadly, it’s not my Wi-Fi
I mean google literally keeps all your voice to text transcriptions(if you use the feature) and location history by default. It wouldn't be such a far fetch to think the device does basic analysis locally and sends ad recommendations along with everything else