I am surprised by the response I got from majority here. I thought the people who are privacy-focused, wouldn’t give the benefit of doubt to Google of all companies. But it isn’t the case here. Everyone here just assumes and believes strongly it isn’t technically not possible which is really the case when you look at the other services offered by Google.

@op i would advise caution on stating ‘24x7’ until there is evidence of that specific claim. (unless you’re referring to while voice assistants are enabled.)

Google app which is pre-installed is pretty a forced voice assistant on everyone on android.

People saying it hurts battery usage, sends crazy amounts of network etc don’t seem to use the latest features from Google.

Now playing, Adaptive audio are some features of android system that Google has given in recent years which listen to our microphones all the time and serve their purpose. I have used them in the past, although it said it consumes battery, I never experienced huge battery brain. Google also says these services work on device and never leaves the device, but I assume extracting few words from my audio and sending them to their servers at frequent times wouldn’t be such a technically demanding process like everyone are stating here on this post. It entirely possible and probably happening.

I was in the same belief that phones do not listen to our mics for years until that news of Facebook employees leaked chat came out.

Oh I just checked, this is a lemmy.ml community.

As I have already mentioned in the post, I am not that deep into privacy rabbit hole that I am completely degoogled my life. If I did, I wouldn’t have any privacy concerns to begin with ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

On why I haven’t done it yet is simply because it is extremely hard. If you go full privacy-focused, you lose out on convience and vice versa. I’d like to stay in balance.

I will watch these later. But recently one of the Facebook’s employee’s chat was leaked saying they listen to customer mics 24/7 via a third party. Google blocked the alleged third party and Facebook has ended ties with them too.

What about it?

That’s absurd to think they link two different Google accounts and recommend stuff on YouTube. This is less believable than them listening to mic 24/7.

Also the device I pirated content on, has only one Google account registered.

There is one more thing I haven’t mentioned here. The device where I pirated the movie is different and is on different Google account and my Google account on which I opened the YouTube was different.

This is amazing. I really want to ditch Gboard. I hope this Futo can replace it completely.

Hey that’s a lot better than companies who asks you to pay and still share your data for profits

I am using version 125.14 too and have no plans to update it.

I have this extension and I always thought it’s duty was to contain Amazon services from interacting with my other sites i.e., stop Amazon trackers. Can you explain to me more how to use container tabs?

I use Connect too and I consider myself as bit of a power user(have 6 clients installed my phone). Connect has all the features or even more than any other client. The horizontal swipe to navigate the posts is my favourite and probably only client that has this feature.

This guy RAMs

You term it in a very positive way but I term it as nothing but “hopium”.

The hope of may be you will do better in the next game or in the next next game or the one after - gamer developers use this to keep us hooked is what I believe.

You will definitely get better aa you keep playing the game and this improvement will give you even more of that hopium drug. It is a cycle which cannot be broken unless you get genuinely bored of the game.

No I don’t have that ROM supported for my device. I’m currently on ricedroid a13.

Fixed? I am on Android 13 custom ROM and I still have that ghosting effect while accessing recent apps when I use third party launchers.

I am using custom roms since 4 years and the issue of third party with universal full gestures of stock android still exists to this day. This is why I use the stock launcher which comes with my custom ROM.

Funny part I’ve shared only bunch of posts on the discord server that I’m active on and as lemmy posts embed so well, few people got interested and made accounts!

True feels like I am doing what I did 10 years back - fascinated about the new social networks. Facebook, twitter, pinterest back then. Lemmy, Kbin, Mastodan, Pixelfed now.