I deactivated my facebook almost 7 years ago, and never looked back. Now I am considering to move away from google services, as google is getting aggressive these days. I use nexus 6p phone and I am seeing youtube recommendations these days based on my phone conversations!
I use nexus 6p phone and I am seeing youtube recommendations these days based on my phone conversations!
The implication of this is that Google listens in and recommends things based on your phone conversations. A much more likely explanation is that you talk on the phone about the same things you look at online, and you're making an incorrect assumption about Google's source of data.
Doing voice processing is much much more computationally expensive than scanning text, and has a much higher error rate, so it would make little sense for Google to do that.
More likely explanations could be:
- Your topic is a common/popular one, so it's statistically likely that Youtube mentions it.
- Other people that (text-)search the same things as you tend to watch these videos (i.e. you have been put is some category or other).
- You did not search for it, but your phone correspondant did, and Youtube/Google tries the same suggestions on you because you're linked (see: there are other and less costly ways for Google to be creepy!).
