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Your Phone Isn’t Eavesdropping on You to Show You Ads (It’s Worse Than That) (lifehacker.com)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I changed the title from "Spying" to "Eavesdropping" because the article actually directly supports that it is "spying" on you, just not listening.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If you get a pihole or related project, you can see what packets are going in and out. It's eye opening what is pulling what.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Especially smart TVs. They’re especially chatty, accounting for something like 85% of network calls (all blocked). Edit: I meant 85% of calls on my network. And they bypass upstream DNS trying to be sneaky. It’s insane.

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