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Your devices recording you is something that doesn't happen.
That requires a lot of bandwidth, or a lot of battery and a little bandwidth. There's no evidence of that happening.
Honestly, the creepier thing is that they don't have to to get creepily accurate ads.
Geolocation data means they know who you spend time with. They also know their search history. They know your interests. They can look at what people who seem similar to you search for.
Plus, they serve you a lot of ads so they can afford to have a lot of misses.
What's your basis for this claim? I mean that might be the case, but is there some reason you're able to have so much certainty?
I understand the "bandwidth" argument, and the "they don't even need that" argument (I make a similar case in a comment to another reply), but neither of those support the idea that it can't be happening.
Getting around the bandwidth problem isn't that crazy: Low bitrate encodings (cause the audio doesn't need to be human-comprehensible) and edge compute (i.e. doing some work on the device before sending anything) could mitigate this significantly, so it's hardly impossible.
I think we mostly agree, I just wouldn't apply that degree of certainty. But if you're really confident that it's definitely not happening because it's definitely not possible, maybe you know something I don't?
Instead of recording and sending to servers, the tracker could use some speech to text locally amd send transcription to the servers too