Is My Android Listening To Me? Experts Expose The Truth!
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- Is your Android listening to you? David & David answer this controversial question, and tell you about some tips that will cut down on the ways advertisers can track you on your Android.
0. Intro [0:00]
1. Are Alexa & Google Assistant Listening To Me? [0:31]
2. How Accelerometers Can Be Used To Track You [2:06]
3. Frequency Illusion [2:58]
4. How To Reduce How Much Data Advertisers Collect About You [3:16]
5. Permission Manager [3:22]
6. Turn Off Google Location History [5:33]
7. Opt Out Of Ads Personalization [6:28]
8. Turn Off Usage Data Access [7:07]
9. Turn On "Do Not Track" In Chrome [8:12]
10. Stop Facebook & Instagram From Tracking You [9:04]
11. Stop Twitter From Tracking You [9:56]
12. Stop Snapchat From Tracking You [10:17]
13. Stop Amazon From Tracking You [11:04]
14. Can I Turn Off TikTok Ads Personalization? [11:56]
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Or we could just leave our phones at home when we go somewhere and live like we did back in the 90s. When someone wanted to call us when we were out of the house, they had to leave a message. And somehow we all survived it.
Literally all of human history...
Survival skills change over time. Can you skin a bear, or splint a broken arm?
@@bipl8989 I think survival skills is way different than just leaving your phone at home 🤣🤦🤣🤦
Then the car is listening to you.... If you leave your cell phone.., most cars today are spying on people from the electronics.... Just no one's telling us.... Because then investigators would be charged with no search they're getting very good info this way and they do not want no one to know in the public
I miss those days
There is absolutely no way you can be completely private living in a modern electronic world. The phones are tracked, computer usage is monitored and tracked, your financial history is tracked, cars are tracked, cameras are everywhere, shops, buses, highstreets, roads, door bells etc. The only way to be completely private is to buy a small holding somewhere in the middle of nowhere and live off-grid. However, I love hot water and hot showers, flushable toilets, gaming, tv and movies, and having fast food delivered to my door, so I guess I'll never be free. I bet even when I'm gone a camera will be watching my grave to make certain I'm not gonna make a bunk for freedom 😆
you can live off-grid and still have electricity, and running water... lol
I'll be long gone before the casket hits the dirt😂😂
Off grid? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 do that and they sre gonna get a hard on for you. Tracking you will be the least of your worries at that point.
@@georgecourson9430 Wow! That is truly a brilliant and completely topic irrelevant observation. You think tank you! 🤣🤣🤣
When I checked my phone Google was set to access the microphone all the time. Google seem to be by far the worst offenders here.
I find it hard to trust a company that contracted to make a special separate internet for the communist chinese government to rule it`s people with.
Yes take all their permissions away.
@@jasonbourne1596 it doesn't stop it. If you change the auditory language it used to stop it but now that doesn't work anymore.
@@Rays_Bad_Decisions Well I'm still taking all their permissions away, because then as far as I'm concerned they are breaking the law if they do.
@@jasonbourne1596 Google censors GOP fundraising emails. They have no problem breaking the law or surppressing the masses
I really appreciate your channel. As a person who is a few years away from being 80 years old, I need all the help I can get just to stay relevant!! Your tips are so helpful. Of course, I’d like you to speak MUCH SLOWER, but as I said, nearly 80 so there’s that! Well done you two ! Your very helpful to me.
There is a slower video setting!
@@Ja-Crispy thank you so much for this info. Now to figure out how to do that!
@@Mlinzon The Cog/Settings icon on the video > Playback speed. Can be anywhere from 0.75 to 0.25 or use the 'custom' option to set your own speed.
@@ManLikeKitch Thank you for that info. Videos are too fast for me to hear correctly too.
Nicer
"Do not track" just includes a tag in your web requests asking the server not to track you, which will be completely ignored by any server that actually does any tracking of users.
YUP! I leave my phone in the protective case about 90% of the time so GOOD LUCK with the mic.
I used to have an Alexa until one day I lost my wallet. I happen to mention it to a friend in the presence of my Alexa, and the next day I'm seeing ads for wallets on my computer. A week later I threw my Alexa in the trash. I recommend that action for anybody else who owns one, or any of the other clones like it.
I think this is about a lot more than "marketing profiles" but the truth would both scare and enrage us so we'll just go with "its just for marketing profiles". Great video guys, thanks! 😉
Just imagine the use that a government can put to it, it is the end of free will. Today the phone does not belong to you, you simply paid for it, but you have absolutely no control over what it does.
Yes!! They listen!! My wife and I were listening to a t.v. show, that mentioned a certain town in western Va. My wife and I were both familiar with it. But while they showed pics of that town, their actual story was about a town in Tenn, w/same name. We started laughing, and my wife asked if I knew where the town was in Tenn. I said yes, about 125 mi SE of Va. town. IMMEDIATELY, GOOGLE Maps automatically came on my phone( phone laying on end table beside me) and gave programmed route from my house to town in Tenn.!! All that BEFORE I even touched my phone!! YES!! THEY LISTEN!!
I love this channel... I don't understand a lot about phones and you explained things very well... also I thought you did a great job of visualization of the phone and where things are located. Thank you very much!!
Ensuring privacy is so much work! So convoluted...
These companies idea of who the customer is, often excludes us. If they could make more money, selling our private data to known dictatorships, they would.
Absolutely!
...you guys are my go-to for my android phone...we tend to "think" we know everything going on with our devices...quite the contrary...my nightmare is updates that change my settings and the difficulty finding them again...even in this video some of my screens are different from what you show. I have come to the conclusion it's simpler to just turn off all choices to a particular app than guessing which ones. In the end, at least with android, if an app needs a permission it will tell me and I click and it takes you to that permission which it needs...thanks guys 😊
Great informational how-to video. Thank yall for this great content and keep up the great work!
Thanks. And, fyi; There is a really good reason Tic-Tok is barred from US Government phones. They may have downplayed it in the news a bit but it Really matters.
Yes but tiktok is not that big of a concern for us because they don't have jurisdiction, we should mostly worry about the companies that are based in our jurisdiction, namely Google, Meta, Apple and Microsoft
Thank you so much for showing us how to stop unauthorized tracking, listening, and advertising,
Great info, thanks. I had a lot of these already implemented. But yall showed me some I didn't know about.
The Gogle location history was actually beneficial to me once. I had someone say I was at their house harrassing them (ex) in SC and when we went to court Google showed that I was in Florida at the alleged time. Case dismissed and ex told by judge to stop with the lying and at my request she didn't get 30 days in jail for lying under oath.
You can partially shut off location on android so that you can be tracked if you make a 911 call and can`t speak.
Should have served her 30 days.
Why would you ask judge not to put them in jail when they were lying to get you put in jail?
They can tell you were your phone is everwhere just because its on it roams on cell towers the whole time. You dont need google for this. This is how police get suspects by using a blanket check of every phone that was within their distance search.
Compassion. Nice
Thank you David and David. Ive followed your tips. Great content as always
Many of your recommendations I've already set on my (new) Android phone. Many thanks for pointing out the different settings in this huge maze!
Thank you for your videos, I learned a lot. They keep changing back. I lost my brother due to uneducate about technology. I am so grateful to both of you.
They hack my phone keyboard, and my switch off have been switch on by itself, and I can't switch off any more.
How did you lose your brother due to " uneducated of technology" ??
It doesn't sound like technology was the problem
Ever heard of Darwin's law??
@@lizacash5287 wtf?? Lmao
@@lizacash5287 wtf?? Lmao
Consider using a browser instead of the app where possible. I don't think my Amazon experience is ruined because I access it like a web page I stead of installing their app. Plus, I avoid introducing another vector for data theft.
You guys deserve 1M subs. Thanks for the help.
Thanks a lot for your guides. Best on TH-cam I've found so far. Great.
Thanks for a useful and well assembled video. I believe I will use these techniques.
I really appreciate your efforts
Thank you so much
I have a 16 oz hammer, a 10 Lb sledge and 6" vise that can fix any tracking/listening/security issues you may run into...
Great suggestions! No more wondering who’s tracking you after the phone gets a full on adjustment from a software genius such as you or me.😅
Lol
Quite a few years ago I noticed something with Facebook. I was at a convention and just happened to be talking to someone that I didn't really know, for about 20 minutes. Some time later he kept popping up in my friend suggestions. We had a similar interest and the smallest number of mutual friends.
I was a bit concerned before I knew much about all the tracking, when I found that Google knew the exact time I walked the about 30 yards to the mailbox, daily, at work.
Yup that's also something I noticed with FB
I always learn something new from y'all!
Great and useful stuff! I love turning off their access--it's like those people who de-clutter homes!
The frequency illusion is like when you buy a car new to you, and suddenly those specific vehicles seem to be everywhere. Because before you bought your vehicle, you really didn't care about them but now you do, because your recent familiarity with that vehicle tunes your perception to now be aware of them.
From the guy who bought a Pontiac Aztec
It’s the brain using what’s called the Reticular Activating System.
I once bought a purple (Spitfire Blue) Honda Civic. About a week later I saw 5, the same colour on the same day.
Yes its happened with every car that I've found interest in 😆 Next up they're everywhere I look.
OMG i've seen this exact comment like 50 times 😂
I have saved a number of your videos to a playlist. Thanks, guys!😁
Watched a couple of your videos and here is to a new subscriber. Thanks for this information.
"Android, are you listening to me?"
"Nope."
"See, guys. Nothing to worry about." 🤷♂
Very informative video! I was amazed at how far in the settings for the Facebook app went! What app do you think has the deepest menu? Is this done for a reason? Is the stuff hidden deep for a reason, or is it just good or bad menu design?
It also listens and connect ads back to you through other peoples phones. Mine was in my car while I hung out with a friend. What we discussed popped up on my phone later that day.
thank you for teaching us because we are like hearing echoes and feeling someone is listening to our conversation
thinking you can stop Google teacking you by changing these settings is an illusion 😂
Pls explain
Absolutely right
@@leepiper4621 changing those settings won't prevent Google from doing what they already do. Your best bet is to install a whole different operating system on your phone
Absolutely brilliant , thankyou !!
Thanks you guys! I'm a single woman over 60 yrs old & need your info. Thanks for helping me stay safe!
WOW!!! I left a comment on the battery video about these very changes that I happen to discover while watching another video beforehand! 6:00 It even says we do not sell your info, LOL!!!
Thank you, very helpfull
The original plan and intention. I just can't believe people are this ignorant to the fact. At this point in time it's hopeless.
Thanks for the settings advice. One request, please slow down some when walking through the settings. It is hard to follow along at the pace you set. Appreciate you and this channel.
Thanks guys. This was really helpful!
I had to get a new phone a few months ago, t c t k just bombarded me with ads every video 🤯. Finally got it to stop. I'm constantly getting offensive ads and it's appalling. Thanks for the update.
Don't use tick tock. Problem solved
@@shizanepimp1 I don't use t c t k
Hello There! Thank You for your videos and information!! Is there any way to turn off automatic updates on our samsung android galaxy S20 FE? Do we really need or have to have these updates? Also when we got our new phones a year ago they are 4G and 5G "capable". We made it Clear to them that we wanted them to operate on 4G Only and Not 5G. How can we be sure that our phones are Only operating on 4G network? Thank You Very Much in advance!! We appreciate You both!!
New Subscriber here! Can you talk about Airtags in the future. Thank! I've already learned a lot from you guys.
Since this is your latest video, I was wondering if you guys went over the IPhone experimental features? Could I turn those off? Thanks for all your content. Very very useful.
In my Location section when I went to Google the only options it allowed me to chose were allow or deny. The "allow when using the app" was there, but you could not choose it. It was dimmed out.
There's a setting under developer settings (has to be enabled) 'called sensors off' This turns off ALL off sensors including accelerometers.
Thanks very much for these videos guys without you we are sitting ducks, God bless and have a safe and blessed day
You guys are a big help thanks
Two weeks ago I was at an airport, talking with a pilot about the air conditioning installed on a Beach KingAir. I never shopped the product nor do I own a plane. Later that evening I had a banner ad on my desktop Google home page for air conditioning systems for Beachcraft King Air aircraft. They are listening, and probably sending information to the FBI.
A month back you commented are phones listening to us & the answer is yes , if you manage to get an old buisness model phone as there are Non General Public sim cards & Xtra Privacy phones like an old Nokia N63 or Blackberry, I could hear the police taping me when i rang my friend he logged my name address dob time n pulse number ? Due to an error they done a Global sweep n visit of peolpe in Australia Brazil Panama Usa England Spain Holland, i dont hear from them now as they were told I'm a big narco . That's happened to a good few people n its ruined many a good friendship . Just keep it well away when talking & never use it for TV as it'll search for devices n use them . I just knock on doors now like urself. I'd rather not have at all . Take care .
It's all automated, the recordings are processed by AI, and converted into shopping suggestions and such. Of course if you were to talk about suspicious things then some guys at the FBI would manually review what you said
Hi I love your channel! Keep on going with your great videos!
Hi Google
@@scottmcgowan6889 do
You think I am google?
I am new to your channel. Thank you so much for this. I have two questions, after doing all this would I need a VPN? and can this be done on a laptop or an iPad?
A month ago my mom was asking me where she can buy rocksalt. I told her the best place in down is Tractor Supply. I had never typed those words on my phone previously, but the very next day TH-cam started serving ads for Tractor Supply.
two things ~ One) get rid of apps that track (as much as possible) Two) ignore (don't buy and make it a point not to) anything from an ad that shows up on your phone! I have developed a habit (20 years in the making) too ignore ads. First it was TV ads then phone and computer. Some products I might buy an inferior product depending on how obnoxious the other ad is (AUTO INSURANCE ADS COME TO MIND)
or three) just get an ad blocker 😂
We bought a new house that had an Alexa system installed it. After about a week, we found a verbatim transcript of our private conversations. We disconnected the system real quick after that. That and "Echo" devices were spying and sending our conversations to people we don't know.
Friends of mine have a daughter called Alexa so you can imagine the chaos in that house.
Unless you root, you can do soo much more! Great video, has info even some advanced users don't even know about!
Really infortaive video thank you ;-)
I remember seeing somewhere even if you turn stuff off it really wasn't turned off.
Under microphone on Android, Google only has two settings, allowed or denied. There is no option to "ask every time".
Thank You!!! Thank You!!! Thank You!!! Also, you really helped me understand how to navigate around my phone better.
Thanks for saying so, Tony!
Thanks for your sharing
I feel like I could be a lab rat. TH-cam is my only social media. I have a Facebook page but rarely go to/use it. my phone, on average, is used less than once a day. maybe 3x's a week, often less. I have a laptop for daily casual use. yet I mention one thing in a text (another sparsely used) or on a rare phone conversation - and, in your example, I get Disney ads. However, Disney is a broad well-known brand that could be a coincidence but in my direct experience my interest or mention of something on my (android) phone is very specific and lo and behold - my esoteric comment comes to ads. "they" are absolutely monitoring our tech and it feels very 1984-ish, or Big Brother if you prefer. thanks for the tutorial as this vintage woman is skeptical of carrying around my own spy. I call it my electronic leash. I resent it but a person of today has to have one. they can be handy/useful, but I lived for decades in rural areas w/o them, and it was fine. some of this is crabby old lady stuff but it's still very true.
David, you triggered my Alexa as I watched this. I use to have this very often as i watched Star Trek TNG. This whole topic was quite interesting
Forget about privacy. I love TNG too! 🤣
@Payette Forward You may have mentioned it at the end of this video , Although I'm sure TicTok app 📲 is programmed to have access to your microphone Every time ( not that i have that app ) . Regards from Australia 🇦🇺 . ♑️✍️🇳🇴
My YT feed has 3 things in I discussed yesterday. Haven't searched them but here they are
I think it picks key words from your comments typed.
Turn the "sensors off" function on.
It might already be unlocked in your pull-down tiles menu...if it isn't already in the pull-down tiles, you can unlock the "sensors off" tile (and other tools) by unlocking the "developer tools" menu option.
Look it up if you've got an android.
But does it really turn off? It might look like it's off to us but who knows
Our daughter and her husband were at home, talking about how old their satellite TV remote was. Without asking, a few days later a new one showed up in the mailbox. After that, we've become very careful with our TV's, phones and the webcams on our computer.
Creepy but hey, free remote!
Really good stuff..thanks
Great video! Thanks!
How does this relate to things such as VPM and Security//Privacy apps ? if you can , LINK in the description ❓
Brilliant boys! thanks.
This is helpful. Thanks!
They record everything.
Murder cases have been solved by a warrant to get the recordings from that location .make no mistake they record everything.
That they do and every thing you delete takes over a month to be deleted from the servers if ever on some.
If they're dumb enough to take their phone when they commit a crime, the first charge they catch should be for stupidity
It's about control ❗
This was very good I go, I have a lot of stuff turned off now, thanks,,
Good work guys!
It's so funny, because when I watch a video on TH-cam, a whole bunch of other videos just like it show up. I'll just look up anything on my desktop and oh! There it is on TH-cam! What a coincidence! Amazing. Does anyone NOT realize we're being tracked at all times? This is not a surprise.
There's a way to restrict accelerometer now. You have to go into developer settings. Clicking sensor off. There will be a toggle I'm Your top down settings now. Just click it and it turns off all sensors. Only problem is cameras won't work while it's on.
I'd love to do this but would get frustrated, turning camera back on all the time.
@@sharontalbot8037 put pieces of square tape on yours
These guys already covered that.
Great idea!
@@sharontalbot8037 on My android the camera can be turned back on very quickly. It's in the drop down menu that's always there no matter what you are doing.
O.M.G.....YES...!!! I've noticed over the last few months that either while conversations are going on amoungst my friends OR while somebody is talking on my comp/telly all of a sudden my phone says "I didn't quite get that" or "do you want......??" it's driving me potty that my phone is listening in to nearby conversations even though it was not asked specifically to look for something....I don't like it at all...invasion of privacy...
thanks for walking us through that...I followed as far as Facebook because I don't have the other apps...now to just keep an eye on my phone butting into conversations..chuckle...
Try disabling Google assistant on your phone but if it continues just know that your phone has been hacked
Thanks. Live Long and Prosper
If you updated your android phone software to Android 12.
On Android 12
New Android ads setting:
Ads
Manage ad personalization on this device.
2 options to click on:
1) Reset advertising ID
2) Delete advertising ID
Which one to click on?
No longer listed in Android 12:
Ads
Opt out of Ads Personlization
Instruct apps not to use our advertising ID to build profiles or show your personalised ads
There is no toggle switch to turn ON
I specifically changed my trigger word to 'computer' so that it would be activated by Scotty whenever I happened to be watching Star Trek IV ("just use the keyboard"). It still gives me enormous pleasure to have Mongomery Scott activate Alexa long after his death.
This channel has helped me so much I give thumbs up even on their android videos.
Twitter, Snapchat, etc … Uninstall is also very effective 😀
I have FB disabled...you cant delete it
Bixby is notorious for activating at random times.
Gotta go into Developer Mode and mute sensors. Then shut it off after it appears as a button in the drop down menu. From then on you can manually turn on and off your camera and microphone access.
Yes Listening totally and create the new "You" !
Thumbs up and subscribed!
Nothing wrong with being Trekkie fan!
💜🌟🛸
It is past time for a class action lawsuit against all these companies tracking your phone and everything else it's way past time there needs to be a class action lawsuit against all of them for this privacy is everything
There won't be one till someone gets killed. Cla is more for safety concerns like the exploding note 7
just great vid! Very easy to follow, but someone had their left arm in front of the Android phone screen to many times!
The sleeve was an off red and purple 1 inch squares! WHO belonged to that "coverup" screen sleeve? LOL!
I have the Galaxy 20 se. When I am on speaker phone I noticed the selfie camera looks to be taking pictures. I lens expands about every 15 seconds. I asked the people at Verizon and showed them too but they had no idea what it was doing. Any thoughts?
Hi there Rita! I hope that you are having a Great Day! Wow! Thank you for your comment/question! I will check mine out next time I m on speaker phone! Blessings!
How can you tell if your selfie camera looks like it is taking pictures?? Please and Thank You in advance!!
I bought tiny sliding covers for my selfie cameras and a sticky cover for back cameras. I bought a phone case with a sliding camera cover built in for my phone with giant cameras on the back. I have stopped taking the phone with me everywhere.
@@Lili-xq9sn I put black electrical tape over all my phones cameras. I stopped carrying phone almost all this year. I just started again and I dont sign into a thing on it.
@@wakeupsheepleNWOREAL but to download/update apps you have to be signed into Google/ or Apple, righ?
This might be simple for you. But for me it's hard, got a new Samsung, have an app, that got put on by mistake.
Had a tec at the store try to get rid of it but what ever she did ,it won't go away ,
It's a message app, but she told me it was like a virus. Help.
You have to call your provider and with their help you can factory rest your phone in a way that you won`t loose your info I had to do it once.
Sorry i don't know if you still have the problem, I've fixed that issue plenty, you need to set your original UI home. Messager Home is a popular app that takes over the UI and puts ads on screen.
I really appreciate you guys
Please keep making content!!
The problem with turning off ad personalization is that instead of ads from things of our normal everyday lives, we get trashy junk ads that me and my family get exposed to. So I'd much rather have ads for shoes I was just looking at at Walmart for my children instead of VS runway model ads or Rated R movie or Rated M game ads. As much as I don't like them knowing my every move I don't like other option even more.
It's all about the money.
They listen all the time