The idea of smartphones and smart speakers listening to everything you say and then sending you targeted advertisements has been around for years, and has largely been debunked by privacy experts. But the marketing unit of Cox Media Group, which owns newspapers and local radio and TV stations around the country, says it can do […]
  • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
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    6 months ago

    You’re argument is based on what a marketing company put in their marketing.

    But your response is

    with clarifications from the company

    So what the company says isn’t good enough… Except when it’s in your favor? You realize that both statement are “from the company”.

    • Cheradenine@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      31·
      6 months ago

      Fight as long as you want, when they were called out on it they backed off. The technical aspects of this are not trivial, nor is the amount of data needed as anyone who has had an Alexa or similar spyware in their house will tell you.

      Like I said

      if this were true I would either see it in my firewall logs, or it would blow through my data cap in a week.

      • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        Like I said

        if this were true I would either see it in my firewall logs, or it would blow through my data cap in a week.

        Audio is literally trivial amounts of bandwidth. You wouldn’t notice it at all. Using something like Opus, you could stream audio 24/7 and reach about 300MBs uploaded. Now do some basic trimming/word processing… That number can easily be less than 10MB a day.