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They don't need to listen to your every word. They have so much information on you that they can pinpoint you pretty well. They would like to, but it's too risky. However making it easy for you to give them information willingly, yes please they are on board.
There is no evidence they are actually always processing everything, and people have been trying to prove it for a long time now. But it seems like they do what they say they are doing: listening for wake words.
I wonder if say a country with some less scrupulous agencies with names like "NSA" and "CIA" and "FBI" could pay or force amazon to also key in at trigger words like "bomb" or "protest," or even just in an effort to get the ads that much closer to inside our brains Chevy pays them to key on "Truck" and "Ford" to attempt to sway customers who discuss it.
Who knows if the trigger words you know are the only trigger words, there's no reason it would need to alert you, it could do it quietly in the background.
You can always go and test this instead of just assuming it's true because it's what you already believe is true.
No I can't, because I don't allow google on my phone much less in my house. GrapheneOS 4 life.
You can, you're just unwilling.
Nope, can't. Physically incapable of subjecting myself to spyware intentionally. I'll continue the inconvenience of typing it myself when I have to search something on a google alternative, no use for those dumb machines for me anyway.
My TV is a 2007 LCD dumb tv, I still have a VCR, an OG xbox, and an NES hooked up to it. Take yer technologies, I don't need em.
Noone is saying you have to put anything in your house or get any type of device.
I'm just saying that you can actually test this, in a way that does not jeopardize your privacy, such as in a controlled lab environment, but you're unwilling to do this. You certainly do not lack the ability to do so.
Ok buy me a lab. Sounds like you have the money to spare with suggestions like that.
I could, but I won't.
I believe you would just come up with another reason you "can't" do it, just like being "physically incapable" of it. Add to that I've seen other people already do it and I have no reason to not trust their findings that I think it would be a waste of money to try and convince someone who would probably just ignore their own eyes anyway.
See? Can't.
Do you actually think this is clever rather than just revealing how dishonest you are?
Unfortunately, not having enough money for a lab and lacking a donor, you, I am incapable.