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Huh oh. As a committed anti-conspiracy-theorist for the "phones listen to your microphone and targeted ads based on what you say" thing I can tell this is going to be exhausting

I think probably 95% of speculation that your phone is secretly listening to you is overblown, but man the tech industry really does not do itself any favors with that 5% arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Oh man, this is indeed one of those super prevalent and very hard to disprove conspiracy theories out there. I hear it all the time even from people who aren't normally into conspiracies.