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My guess is some android shenanigans. They go to great lengths to track you.
People called me crazy when I said that the phone was listening through the microphone to track your conversations, until they actually admitted they were doing precisely that.
Android may be doing whatever to track you.
Do you have a source to placate people who say phones don't listen to your conversation through the microphone when you don't expect them to ?
https://nypost.com/2024/09/03/business/marketing-firm-spies-on-you-through-your-phones-microphone-report/
This is what I read.
I’ve seen rebuttals that this was an advertising firm embellishing capabilities to sell themselves, which…maybe. But I have too many anecdotal experiences to believe that.
Last month, my wife and I talked about how we hate Morgan Wallen. Never even typed his name until this post. And yet, after the discussion, she had IG sponsored posts for his out of state concert and Alexa had ads for him on Amazon music. Both within 2 days of the conversation.
I threw out the Alexa, increased Pinhole block lists, and we just leave our phones in another room in airplane mode for some topics.
To anyone who ventures this far, enjoy this relevant Simpsons reference
ON the other hand, from Project MK Ultra to Echelon to Prism, from Cambridge Analytica to Palantir and the other Tech-Creeps Industrial Complex, on the matter of spying and I think there isn't such as a thing "going too far". Not even the dreams of Big Brother could go quite as far as the merciless depravity humanity is about to experience.
Thinking your phone don't spy on you will be regarded as "quaint" and "hopelessly naive"