Conversation cleary monitored and not sure how

diamond.g said:
Like packet sniffing/tracing?
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No; Like they actually opened "server" ports on localhost (not port 80; I forget which ports) that their Meta Pixel tracking system would send and receive data from on the web to send tracking details from every website you visit to your Meta apps and vice versa; Your Facebook profile details to all websites you visited. Didn't matter if you had all cookies disabled on the web and strong privacy settings enabled. As soon as the report detailing the practice was published they stopped doing it
 
casperes1996 said:
No; Like they actually opened "server" ports on localhost (not port 80; I forget which ports) that their Meta Pixel tracking system would send and receive data from on the web to send tracking details from every website you visit to your Meta apps and vice versa; Your Facebook profile details to all websites you visited. Didn't matter if you had all cookies disabled on the web and strong privacy settings enabled. As soon as the report detailing the practice was published they stopped doing it
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That is wild.
 
casperes1996 said:
No; Like they actually opened "server" ports on localhost (not port 80; I forget which ports) that their Meta Pixel tracking system would send and receive data from on the web to send tracking details from every website you visit to your Meta apps and vice versa; Your Facebook profile details to all websites you visited. Didn't matter if you had all cookies disabled on the web and strong privacy settings enabled. As soon as the report detailing the practice was published they stopped doing it
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Unbelievable, worthy of a class action.
 
Happened again tonight, Portlandia displayed on the Netflix menu and I spoke it out loud to my wife. Two hours later I'm getting a push to follow the show on my Instagram feed, makes it seem like that's the culprit.

The list of apps running the mic between her phone and mine were:

Google Home
Nest
Instagram
Shazam
TikTok

And the Alexa was also listening.
 
Eric said:
And the Alexa was also listening.
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I had the very first FireTV. At some point I used an old Xbox 360 controller instead of the remote (the old FireTV still had an USB port), because I didn't want to replace the batteries and I've only used the voice search function once and it didn't work properly.
When that FireTV became too old and began acting up, I thought of getting a new one. Then I found out that the new FireTV has the microphone in the main unit instead of the remote. Since I didn't want a permanent bug in my living room, I switched to Apple TV instead (apart from the fact that I miss SmartTube, I never regretted that decision).

The only occurance where I had this strange behavior, was when discussing specific topics with someone, while they had their Samsung phone out (hell knows what was running on the phone). Later at home, Youtube showed me videos with those topics.
In that case I suspect Google, because who else could link my Youtube account to my voice? (And I don't even upload videos, I just use the account to subscribe to channels.)
 
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