About an hour ago, I heard a strange noise outside and looked through my window to see some light moving in the grass. I did a quick recording from my phone but it was blurry because the camera kept focusing on the mosquito net, so I grabbed my headlamp to go outside to investigate.
It turns out my landlord got a real fancy lawnmower robot that was almost completely silent moving the lawn.
I go back in to watch some Youtube videos. About half an hour in, a lot of whacky channels start popping up recommending me videos of UFO sightings.
Coincidence or is it because I made a video with blurry lights while saying "What is this?"
I lean towards the first option because I avoid pseudo science channels like the plague and I didn't give the algorhythm any starting point. You know, like when you accidentally watch a basketball video and the whole feed turns into basketball until you train it that you're not a basketball Fan to make them go away.
Now I have to do that with all the UFO videos and weirdly enough sasquatch that got into the mix as well.
I think I have to degooglefy way more serious than I already do. I always have camera and mic deactivated in the system unless I get a call or take a picture/video, so I should be good during the day. I do that for over a year now and the coincidential recommendations that mimic some random stuff you talked about a couple hours earlier stopped completely. But sometimes I need those functions and I don't like some company using it for evil.
Screenshot of the first Video I took:
What app did you use to record the video? Which apps have permission to access the area of your filesystem where the video is stored?
I recordered it with the stock Android camera.
The only Apps that have permission to my camera besides the system Apps are discord and picsart.