Is my phone listening to me? We tested it, here's what happened

It gets really freaky when you've said nothing but your phone starts sending ads based on what you were thinking.

"When a service is free, you are the product"

We need a massive class action lawsuit on Google for this VERY OBVIOUS violation of our privacy. Literally everyone who uses a phone knows they listen to your conversations and force advise.

When something shows up 20-30 minutes later and you tested by talking about something really foreign to you, you know it's listening. These CEO's are either lying or their developers are doing it and not saying anything to allow them plausible deniability.

They do, let’s stop pretending it’s just a conspiracy

Snowden told you. He wasn’t lying.

YouTube/Google definitely listens on a far deeper level than you realize. It tracks movement. Ambient sounds. Knows when you set your phone down and/or are busy working and throws ads knowing you won't be able to skip them. I've replicated this 100s of times. They hear absolutely everything and will learn the machines your running if you do. Once it recognizes that particular sound it will go to ads. Knowing from past learning that sound means you won't be able to skip ads. It's crazy but true. I've proven it

YouTube definitely listens! I was talking to my husband and said "I wish I had some mac and cheese". A couple seconds later I refresh my YouTube page and at the very top there's a KFC ad for mac and cheese. A couple days later I'm talking with him on the phone about whether or not we should have more kids. The next day I'm getting video recommendations such as "Why I Stopped Having Kids" or "Is it Worth Having Kids?" I have never searched for anything to do with that at all. You can't convince me they aren't listening.

They ABSOLUTELY are listening. I never searched for Greek food online, but when my friend and I talked about it we got ads for it five minutes later. Coincidence? Yeah right!

When people say, "I don't believe....." they often mean, "I don't WANT to believe", because it's too unpleasant to accept.

Who mixed the audio on this video? The fact it is playing from one side only is bad enough, but for it to change which side it is playing on over and over is just insane.

good thing humans only have one ear, on the left side. this was a great auditory experience

How about when you haven’t said a word, haven’t looked up a thing, and your very thoughts come up on your feeds. That’s the level really freaking me out.

Just because they say they're not...doesn't mean they're not.

One anecdote i can tell is one night i hung out with a guy i had never met prior at my house and the next day he was my first suggested friend. FB knew we were in the same house and thought we should be friends. How sweet 😑

This happened 15 minutes ago. My wife needed to run an errand and we spoke briefly about her picking food up from a restaurant. I see the ad on YouTube 3 minutes later. It's somewhere I eat once a year at most. I've had suspicions about this in the past and spoke loudly about something random like flea medication for the dogs - same results.

I was telling someone an hour ago that my phone is definitely spying on me then this video pops up.

What's really weird is when you're just "Thinking" of something and it appears on your phone......

They absolutely are. See what ads you have going and start talking about something completely foreing to you for couple of minutes and see what happens. We had a mouse in the house and wife yelled "MOUSE!!" few times. In the same evening ads for mousetraps start showing up. And this is not just one case. This happens all the time.

the weirdest part is even if you don't say it, like you just thought of it, they can still hear it, like idk if this happens to some.