Technology at home - do you trust it?

Yeah, discuss something totally off the wall that you have not searched for ever with someone with nothing but your cell phone around... Like diabetic shoes...

Then see what kind of pop up ads you start seeing on sites...

No one is listening though...

I fully believe that they are actively recording everything we say. But if they want to hold one to me talking about the most mundane things in life and yelling at the cats to get off the counter, then that doesn't bother me. We don't have any devices in our bedrooms or my office. At least devices I know can listen. I'm sure they hear everything in the house.

your phone already listens to you. turn off all mics. yeah better turn all that shite off if you do not want them spying. one time i mentioned a certain bottle of wine and not much later i was plastered with ads online about that exact bottle.

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As cool as Alexa and other voice apps are, we don't have it because of principle, not that we do anything that isn't boring.

Phones are the only thing I am aware of that are listening in my home.... and I am tempted to go back to rotary.

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I'm fairly confident that the Nest thermostat that was in the house when I bought it wants to kill me.

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A nest ad just appeared on the right side of my screen. I'm not kidding.

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I laughed. My wife laughed. Alexa laughed...

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I renamed Alexa as "Computer."

Now she constantly interrupts when I am watching Star Trek.

I sometimes pick up my wife's iphone and say Taylormade driver, titelist pro v 1, golf resorts etc

No.

I understand that I've actually purchased a homing device that I keep in my pocket, and that it can hear what I say and see what I'm doing...I get it.

But I refuse to add devices like Alexa or any of those things which need to "listen" in order to even work and constantly have access to the internet.

Sad thing is that I grew up waiting for The Jetsons to actually happen. Now that we're approaching that, the fact that everything is linked to the internet in order to have a "smart house" makes me want to ensure my house is a fricking dullard.

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Sad thing is that I grew up waiting for The Jetsons to actually happen. Now that we're approaching that, the fact that everything is linked to the internet in order to have a "smart house" makes me want to ensure my house is a fricking dullard.

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I - momentarily - was slightly annoyed during the deep freeze here in Texas that I couldn't order pizza online because their site was down and had to - *gasp* - pick up the phone to order delivery.

I quickly came to my senses lol.