Bots.

[Phil Pascoe]

I know I'm being watched, but I wonder whose bot has decided to keep sending me adverts for mole traps?

 

[Sideways]

They'll try Jasper Carrott DVD's next.
Better buy a mole trap quick !

 

[John Brown]

Do you have a self-destructive informant in your household?

 

[Phil Pascoe]

I have no idea where this came from - I have a garden the size of a postage stamp.

 

[NickDReed]

You think this is concerning? Just wait until mole hills start to appear in your garden AFTER the adverts!!

 

[TRITON]

Have you got Alexa or anything like that ?.

Apparently they listen in on every snippet of information and send it back to the company.

 

[NickDReed]

Have you got Alexa or anything like that ?.

Apparently they listen in on every snippet of information and send it back to the company.

It's a telescreen, and you are not permitted to turn it off you know else Thinkpol will pay you a visit!

 

[Phil Pascoe]

No alexa or similar. I haven't mentioned a mole trap in last few decades.

 

[John Brown]

Have you got Alexa or anything like that ?.

Apparently they listen in on every snippet of information and send it back to the company.

I'm pretty certain that Alexa doesn't. I can't talk for Siri or Google, though.

 

[mcostello]

Wife or girl friend have a mole? Just asking...............

 

[Phil Pascoe]

no.

 

[Jameshow]

I've got adverts for private schools, GP vacancy in Breamar!!! Better than funeral plans I guess!

 

[Ian down london way]

I disabled tailored adds at one time and started getting adverts for milking machines and Cow insemination services. (I live in surbiton).
I turned them back on.

 

[John Brown]

I disabled tailored adds at one time and started getting adverts for milking machines and Cow insemination services. (I live in surbiton).
I turned them back on.

You're not Felicity Kendall, are you, living under an assumed name?

 

[paulrbarnard]

No alexa or similar. I haven't mentioned a mole trap in last few decades.

You weren’t threatening to blow someone’s head off were you?

 

[paulrbarnard]

I'm pretty certain that Alexa doesn't. I can't talk for Siri or Google, though.

The current generation of home devices send data to the cloud to be interpreted. This is only after the trigger word has been said. On Alexa you can configure it to process locally but that’s not the default setting. It also degrades the performance of the recognition. Siri is cloud only in current generations but they have announced they are introducing on device option. Google is the prime offender in un authorised data slurping. If you have a Google app, pretty much any of them, running then it is sending everything. They even manage to generate enough cross references from social media interactions to be able to target friends and family as well. I avoided anything from Google and don’t grant permissions for access to microphone or camera. If they then say they can’t work they go in the trash.

Great example from our house. My daughter was staying and opened the fridge and said “what are nematodes” because my wife had some stored there. My daughter immediately started receiving adverts for pest control, nematodes and gardening. All from a single question when she had her phone in her pocket.

 

[John Brown]

The current generation of home devices send data to the cloud to be interpreted. This is only after the trigger word has been said. On Alexa you can configure it to process locally but that’s not the default setting. It also degrades the performance of the recognition. Siri is cloud only in current generations but they have announced they are introducing on device option. Google is the prime offender in un authorised data slurping. If you have a Google app, pretty much any of them, running then it is sending everything. They even manage to generate enough cross references from social media interactions to be able to target friends and family as well. I avoided anything from Google and don’t grant permissions for access to microphone or camera. If they then say they can’t work they go in the trash.

Great example from our house. My daughter was staying and opened the fridge and said “what are nematodes” because my wife had some stored there. My daughter immediately started receiving adverts for pest control, nematodes and gardening. All from a single question when she had her phone in her pocket.

I say tomato, you say nematodes.
Just turn the whole fridge off.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

. My daughter was staying and opened the fridge and said “what are nematodes” because my wife had some stored there.

as you do.