Your phone is definitely listening to your conversations

[TJ8869]

I called tbw at 5:57pm to let her know I was on my way home and asked her if she needed me to pick up anything for her. She asked if I could get her something from Piada.

The call lasted 4 minutes and I hung up at 6:01. At 6:03 I received a text message from Piada, urging me to sign up for automated personalized marketing alerts. The last time I received any messages from Piada was November 2022.

Be careful what you talk about on your phone.

 

[Bank of Hawk]

Csb

 

[83Hawk]

Csb

Nice to know this kind of thing doesn't bother you.

 

[IIowaFarmBoy]

Ever get the feeling your phone is listening to your thoughts?

 

[RollingBallofButcherKnives]

Ever get the feeling your phone is listening to your thoughts?

 

[lucas80]

Hopefully the OP’s phone isn’t picking up the conversations between his wife and me. He’s going to have to make some odd purchases at the store.

 

[ericram]

OPs phone is possessed. He should throw it on the lake and get a simple flip burner phone.

 

[NoleinATL]

Change your microphone permission settings, problem solved

 

[Ferentz_Fan]

It's more than that, your home network will start to provide advertisements from other devices and will distribute...too lazy to research.

 

[SansAgain]

I know they’re watching me jerkoff to lesbian Reddit porn and it adds an element of perversion for me. I’m cool with it.

 

[binsfeldcyhawk2]

I know they’re watching me jerkoff to lesbian Reddit porn and it adds an element of perversion for me. I’m cool with it.

 

[4ohs]

You just now coming to this conclusion?

Bush signed the Patriot act. Then Obama resigned it.

I’ve just assumed that every single one of my communications is checked by my government.

You…didn’t see this coming?

 

[Hawgk]

It's more than that, your home network will start to provide advertisements from other devices and will distribute...too lazy to research.

That’s been happening for a few years and it’s worse than that. I’ve had many advertisements show up on the browser on my work desktop at my office that are very specific to things we’re considering or need to buy at home, or have recently searched on Amazon.

And I don’t do personal logins to anything on my work computer, or any work logins to my personal devices. Nothing. It just knows and it’s creepy AF.

 

[InsaneHawkJJP]

Thanks for sharing this “breaking news” with us OP.

 

[TJ8869]

That’s been happening for a few years and it’s worse than that. I’ve had many advertisements show up on the browser on my work desktop at my office that are very specific to things we’re considering or need to buy at home, or have recently searched on Amazon.

And I don’t do personal logins to anything on my work computer, or any work logins to my personal devices. Nothing. It just knows and it’s creepy AF.

I’ve had ads that clearly were triggered by keywords in text messages or Google searches. But this is the first time I’m
aware of one being triggered by something I said in a conversation.

 

[TJ8869]

Change your microphone permission settings, problem solved

That was the first thing I checked. I have the Piada app on my phone but it doesn’t have permission to access my microphone.

It’s almost as if the permission settings mean nothing.

 

[FAUlty Gator]

I called tbw at 5:57pm to let her know I was on my way home and asked her if she needed me to pick up anything for her. She asked if I could get her something from Piada.

The call lasted 4 minutes and I hung up at 6:01. At 6:03 I received a text message from Piada, urging me to sign up for automated personalized marketing alerts. The last time I received any messages from Piada was November 2022.

Be careful what you talk about on your phone.

It’s not just listening to your phone calls. It listens to your out of pocket conversations as well.
Just in last week…

I talked about my bad back. Got a a “bad back? Email an hour later. Mentioned pizza. Dominoes email an hour later.

But the craziest one was two days ago. I had a conversation with someone about my 10 year plan of learning 65 songs on piano to start playing tiki bars. Literally an hour later I got an email talking about “Finding paying gigs” and offering up some sort of half assed representation.

No doubt.

 

[ihhawk]

Our friends came over last week and he drove his new GMC truck. We talked about it in the living room and the next morning I told the wife that I want to start looking at them.

A shit ton of GMC ads started hitting my phone. That day

 

[noleclone2]

We have plenty of examples of this we started noticing going back 10 years now. Most common one is talking about getting pizza and getting emial coupons from dominos or Pizza Hut within 30 minutes. You can almost make a game out of it.

The most incredible one was the wife and I were taking about getting decorative shutters for the house and an hour later I had a company selling shutters send me email to my WORK email. It does not bother me. Heck, sometimes I have got deals from it. It’s like subconscious shopping. I reckon the government knows about everything already so it does not freak me out.

We have come a long way from the targeted browser pop ups!