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[–] [email protected] -4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

why is this downvoted? you cant prove its not, if its proprietry. and since the companies listening just happen to profit off data collection (and break/bend the law often), its safe to assume they do this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Because you can prove it by monitoring network requests with a packet sniffer, which has been done.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Interesting. I haven’t seen this myself but it wouldn’t really surprise me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's a standard tactic for people who do networking things

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah. I work in that general field but not at the user level like that so never got into packet sniffing. Now’s as good a time as ever eh?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Probably bots controlled by people hired by the companies that spy on us through those things.