I personally do, he actually risked his life to release information about the government spying on people. And there are for sure more advanced ways now. Even your phone is listening.
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Anybody notice a stock "Now Playing" app has automatically downloaded on their Android without their knowledge at some point?
Because I definitely want my phone always listening just in case there's a song I don't know that can be identified by an app I'm not even aware of!
God I need a dumb phone.
This could be a coincidence, but I was randomly eating watermelon talking about how good it was and looked up and then this.
Now playing has been a thing since the pixel 3. I think it works by having an on device set of hashes for the starts of songs and listens for them snippets to then show it on your lock screen for what would be the duration of the song or until it hears another.
Thank you for giving me more background here! I was vaguely aware of this feature but believe I disabled it earlier on (along with other unused features and app permissions en masse) so the surprise app was a shock. I'm tech-aware but not savvy at this point so I just risk mitigate where I can.
I don't have experience with Shazam or similar for context, so do most apps like this utilize snippet hashes on device? (headed to wiki but thought I'd ask)
Shazam is likely a bit more complicated and accurate since you're sending data to an online service and you actively check a song at any time.
I have zero regerts going to GrapheneOS. Still, I understand wanting to go back to a dumb phone. I miss the old internet.
NO RAGRETS
Isn't that purely on device?
It is. Unless you have you've attracted the attention of a state level spy agency, then it's a useful tool in the arsenal of weaknesses on your device.
It was a Pixel feature that they turned into a standalone app.
Man, knowing nothing about what you're talking about and being confidently paranoid is an amazing way to actually miss the ways the corpos are fucking you.
It's too complicated to even begin to describe why what you're saying is embarrassingly wrong, and that's actually ok, not knowing how your phone works is not something against you, being confidently incorrect and not even wanting to learn is.
Thanks, man. Been having a shit week. Literally just noticed this standalone app today. Have actually had problems with paranoia before. Though it should go without saying to anyone that my second paragraph has an obvious /s attached it.
But again, thanks so much for telling me I'm embarrassing and I don't want to learn anything, even if I posted this on a literal no stupid questions page, with an open ended question, akin to "does anybody else...?"
Yeah, okay. I do want to learn.
I especially want to learn to make sure I never explain anything to anyone like you just did to me.