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.
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! 😉
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.
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
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!!
"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.
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.
...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 😊
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 😆
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
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.
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.
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.
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)
I don't know if you got these ads where you are but they are the worst to me- We Buy Any Car. I would never sell them a car because they torment us with the most obnoxious ads ever! 😂
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.
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.
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!!
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I call BS on the frequency illusion in this case. My friend was talking to me about two subjects during lunch: a wedding he was going to, and how much his wife loves and artist that I don't like at all. That evening youtube recommended music to play at a wedding and guess what artist it was. Also, no, TH-cam doesn't have access to my microphone on my device. But it did on his.
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
I recently went to see my doctor about a shoulder pain. She diagnosed a rotator cuff tear. I came home and my wife asked me what the diagnosis was, again, I mentioned rotator cuff tear. That evening I started getting ads on my FB stream for rotator cuff shoulder braces!!
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.
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.
@@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
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.
@@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.
Good video. I personally would just uninstall the Amazon app and use their web interface for shopping. Much faster and far less sneaky. I did this years ago and I we still shop there a lot.
@Jonny Croxville There are some apps that are are impossible to delete unless you manage to "root" your phone. Barring that, the best you can do is disable them where possible. I haven't been able to root a phone for years due to various reasons but on my current phone I have Chrome browser, Facebook and Google TV disabled with no impact on the other apps.
@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 🇦🇺 . ♑️✍️🇳🇴
I just flat out refuse to ever watch any forced advertising anywhere about anything for any reason. If I want a product or service, I look it up. I haven't watched one single tv, internet or any media ad in a probably a decade and wouldn't have it any other way. My life is driven by ME and no ad can find my attention unless I purposely look for it.
Just found out the hard way that some apps will stop working correctly e.g. WhatsApp will not be able to record audio recordings because the sensor is off. So if your apps cannot record your dictation regardless of your permissions setttings, updates and restarting your phone, just turn off your sensor during time of use the turn it back on whe you are done.
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.
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!!!
The answer is yes and yes. On top of everyone's info being sold online. I can talk about something IRL then see ads for it on FB..long story short all of my social media is gone, I only have a youtube and Google and a VPN. I have lost about 70% of my ads randomized and its a far better experience online.
I've seen a few of your vids, and for privacy very good. For ads....do a video on stopping ads. Route via home firewall and pihole, or use a (vpn) adblock. Even a few adblock apps does not require Root. Ads eat bandwidth, data quota, and even phone processing power. Say NO to ads. Just say no.
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.
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.
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, am a bonafide A-hole. The others, am a saint. Multiple personalities works well to throw them off. The only downside is, I get confused during the interface.
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?
We act like third party apps to block another app from using a mic or camera when the app isn't running, can't be created. How about every app operates in a container and is completely isolated when not in use?
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.
Don't use software updates. Use at home locator. Then your phone becomes like a walking talking under its own frequency. So when they try to track you no matter where you are ,it will be at your home address, your IP. Therefore making you basically invisible. Outside of your home. I have a masters with honors in computer literacy and I program my own phone. I own the same phone after 5 years and no degradation in the system. Battery perfectly fine. If it gets warm put your phone in the freezer for about 5 minutes. Cooling down its radiation signature just like cooling towers work for nuclear power station. If you go off the road in the snow storm, no one can see you. That's then you turn your locator on, so they can ping where you're at, and help you. Software updates opened your phone to them again. Don't update. Not even the weather forecast.
I had a Zoom meeting with a guitar player friend who was telling me about his new baritone guitar. The next day YT was giving me videos about baritone guitars. I had never even once seen videos on or searched for baritone guitars. Creeped me out.
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.
I don't have the google app so I don't need to do that but I do have google play and it had access to my text for some reason. I clicked that off. One day I'm going to find every sneaky thing they are doing on my phone.
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!!
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...
I highly recommend never doing anything of a financial nature on a "smartphone" - use your desktop PC for these things and NEVER sync your desktop PC with a "smartphone". Also make sure your desktop is running windows 11 for the security features built into it. Thanks Dave & Dave!
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
And you believe all that makes a difference? they can turn on everything they want, turn the phone off and shield it in a faraday bag, leave it at home and turn it on when you need it
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.
Yes. Sometimes my phone lights up and has a message that says the back bedroom speaker is on. We don't have any speaker in the back bedroom..... Thanks for your video
After 2hrs I have disabled as much as I could! Thanks guys, only thing I couldn't get around was 'Google play services' phone won't work unless it access all my data.
Thanks guys. Good video. I have turned off every darn thing I could. Then while I'm busy with, say Whats App, I get a popup moaning that a critical error is about to occur, unless I turn on access to location. Also...photos can't be saved to the gallery, unless the camera has access to my location. WHY??!!!
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.
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.
Every app you install listens and tracks you and also phishes for phone information. I have an app information blocker, so it prevents all these apps from obtaining information such as the phone I'm using, software, operating system, location, storage, city, country, so on and so forth. It's normally 3rd party companies associated with the app that want the information. I know, I know, I could just deny the app from access, but some apps will not work or work correctly unless you've given them permission. This could also account for battery loss from the amount of information being sent. One company racked up 3715 attempts in 6 hours trying to obtain information from my phone.
In my Samsung Android 11 I was using activity launcher (mind-blowing what's hidden from you that has full, launchable activities) and came across "Baby Crying Detector" and "Doorbell Detector" that were enabled by default. I haven't seen much about these apps and what they're really capable of at all. Anyone know much about these? I'm sure it wouldn't be a bad idea to include these apps in similar videos. Thanks.
Yes. It takes more than 8 hours to go through EVERYTHING on your phone and try to control the spying. I cover all my cameras too. And recently stopped taking the phone everywhere with me.
Yes that would be a good video, A guy I knew bought a new phone once and went home to a normal day went to bed and when he got up the next morning and started to move a round all of a sudden the phone blarred out good morning jack ,he was shocked and mad.
Common sense should dictate to you that if you use the assistant on the phone the microphone is on in order to hear your commands.🤷🏼♂️ Sometimes I forget common sense today is not as common as it used to be. If you don't go into Settings and turn it off/disable it is on.
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!
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.
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.
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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! 😉
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
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 recently talked to my brother about how Google might be listening to me and today I was recommended this video.
they have to
"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.
Thanks you guys! I'm a single woman over 60 yrs old & need your info. Thanks for helping me stay safe!
❗️Watch this next! 8 Android settings you NEED to turn off now: th-cam.com/video/RyT5n8HD9Wk/w-d-xo.html
...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 😊
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! 🤣🤣🤣
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
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.
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.
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.
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 😂
I don't know if you got these ads where you are but they are the worst to me- We Buy Any Car. I would never sell them a car because they torment us with the most obnoxious ads ever! 😂
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!
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.
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!!
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
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
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
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
Thank you so much for showing us how to stop unauthorized tracking, listening, and advertising,
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
If you need Alexa to change a soundtrack for you or switch on your AC, you need to loosen up your schedule a smidge.
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 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
This started happening back in 2012, at least that far back (possibly a year or two earlier). Anyone who doesn't think so, wasn't paying attention.
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.
Great informational how-to video. Thank yall for this great content and keep up the great work!
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.
"Android, are you listening to me?"
"Nope."
"See, guys. Nothing to worry about." 🤷♂
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!
I call BS on the frequency illusion in this case. My friend was talking to me about two subjects during lunch: a wedding he was going to, and how much his wife loves and artist that I don't like at all. That evening youtube recommended music to play at a wedding and guess what artist it was. Also, no, TH-cam doesn't have access to my microphone on my device. But it did on his.
Great and useful stuff! I love turning off their access--it's like those people who de-clutter homes!
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
I recently went to see my doctor about a shoulder pain. She diagnosed a rotator cuff tear. I came home and my wife asked me what the diagnosis was, again, I mentioned rotator cuff tear. That evening I started getting ads on my FB stream for rotator cuff shoulder braces!!
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.
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.
I talk to myself a lot so I'm glad Andy is at least listening.
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
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.
Good video. I personally would just uninstall the Amazon app and use their web interface for shopping. Much faster and far less sneaky. I did this years ago and I we still shop there a lot.
@Jonny Croxville There are some apps that are are impossible to delete unless you manage to "root" your phone. Barring that, the best you can do is disable them where possible. I haven't been able to root a phone for years due to various reasons but on my current phone I have Chrome browser, Facebook and Google TV disabled with no impact on the other apps.
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
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 🇦🇺 . ♑️✍️🇳🇴
I just flat out refuse to ever watch any forced advertising anywhere about anything for any reason. If I want a product or service, I look it up. I haven't watched one single tv, internet or any media ad in a probably a decade and wouldn't have it any other way. My life is driven by ME and no ad can find my attention unless I purposely look for it.
Under microphone on Android, Google only has two settings, allowed or denied. There is no option to "ask every time".
Just found out the hard way that some apps will stop working correctly e.g. WhatsApp will not be able to record audio recordings because the sensor is off. So if your apps cannot record your dictation regardless of your permissions setttings, updates and restarting your phone, just turn off your sensor during time of use the turn it back on whe you are done.
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.
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!!!
There's a setting under developer settings (has to be enabled) 'called sensors off' This turns off ALL off sensors including accelerometers.
You guys deserve 1M subs. Thanks for the help.
The answer is yes and yes. On top of everyone's info being sold online. I can talk about something IRL then see ads for it on FB..long story short all of my social media is gone, I only have a youtube and Google and a VPN. I have lost about 70% of my ads randomized and its a far better experience online.
thank you for teaching us because we are like hearing echoes and feeling someone is listening to our conversation
Thank you David and David. Ive followed your tips. Great content as always
I've seen a few of your vids, and for privacy very good. For ads....do a video on stopping ads. Route via home firewall and pihole, or use a (vpn) adblock. Even a few adblock apps does not require Root. Ads eat bandwidth, data quota, and even phone processing power. Say NO to ads. Just say no.
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.
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.
Twitter, Snapchat, etc … Uninstall is also very effective 😀
I have FB disabled...you cant delete it
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, am a bonafide A-hole. The others, am a saint. Multiple personalities works well to throw them off. The only downside is, I get confused during the interface.
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?
We act like third party apps to block another app from using a mic or camera when the app isn't running, can't be created. How about every app operates in a container and is completely isolated when not in use?
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.
Don't use software updates. Use at home locator. Then your phone becomes like a walking talking under its own frequency. So when they try to track you no matter where you are ,it will be at your home address, your IP. Therefore making you basically invisible. Outside of your home. I have a masters with honors in computer literacy and I program my own phone. I own the same phone after 5 years and no degradation in the system. Battery perfectly fine. If it gets warm put your phone in the freezer for about 5 minutes. Cooling down its radiation signature just like cooling towers work for nuclear power station.
If you go off the road in the snow storm, no one can see you. That's then you turn your locator on, so they can ping where you're at, and help you. Software updates opened your phone to them again.
Don't update. Not even the weather forecast.
I really appreciate your efforts
Thank you so much
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!
Hi I love your channel! Keep on going with your great videos!
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I had a Zoom meeting with a guitar player friend who was telling me about his new baritone guitar. The next day YT was giving me videos about baritone guitars. I had never even once seen videos on or searched for baritone guitars. Creeped me out.
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.
I don't have the google app so I don't need to do that but I do have google play and it had access to my text for some reason. I clicked that off. One day I'm going to find every sneaky thing they are doing on my phone.
New Subscriber here! Can you talk about Airtags in the future. Thank! I've already learned a lot from you guys.
How does this relate to things such as VPM and Security//Privacy apps ? if you can , LINK in the description ❓
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!!
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
But does it really turn off? It might look like it's off to us but who knows
I highly recommend never doing anything of a financial nature on a "smartphone" - use your desktop PC for these things and NEVER sync your desktop PC with a "smartphone". Also make sure your desktop is running windows 11 for the security features built into it. Thanks Dave & Dave!
My cousins are techies from back in the 70s. They won't even use online banking at all because they don't trust it.
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
Through Developer Options, you can activate the Sensors Off button. Disables microphone, cam, and gyroscope.
Nothing wrong with being Trekkie fan!
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Definitely Yes!!
And (They) even take a peek also; a lot of times I have to make sure the phone stays Off, because sometimes it "Restarts" by itself 😳
It's about control ❗
Just reading your comments and the best suggestion was " leave your phone at home " !
Absolutely brilliant , thankyou !!
And you believe all that makes a difference? they can turn on everything they want, turn the phone off and shield it in a faraday bag, leave it at home and turn it on when you need it
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.
Yes. Sometimes my phone lights up and has a message that says the back bedroom speaker is on.
We don't have any speaker in the back bedroom.....
Thanks for your video
They listen all the time
After 2hrs I have disabled as much as I could! Thanks guys, only thing I couldn't get around was 'Google play services' phone won't work unless it access all my data.
Thank you, very helpfull
Thanks guys. Good video.
I have turned off every darn thing I could. Then while I'm busy with, say Whats App, I get a popup moaning that a critical error is about to occur, unless I turn on access to location. Also...photos can't be saved to the gallery, unless the camera has access to my location. WHY??!!!
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.
Every app you install listens and tracks you and also phishes for phone information. I have an app information blocker, so it prevents all these apps from obtaining information such as the phone I'm using, software, operating system, location, storage, city, country, so on and so forth. It's normally 3rd party companies associated with the app that want the information. I know, I know, I could just deny the app from access, but some apps will not work or work correctly unless you've given them permission. This could also account for battery loss from the amount of information being sent.
One company racked up 3715 attempts in 6 hours trying to obtain information from my phone.
So what is the app information blocker you use?
In my Samsung Android 11 I was using activity launcher (mind-blowing what's hidden from you that has full, launchable activities) and came across "Baby Crying Detector" and "Doorbell Detector" that were enabled by default. I haven't seen much about these apps and what they're really capable of at all. Anyone know much about these? I'm sure it wouldn't be a bad idea to include these apps in similar videos. Thanks.
Yes. It takes more than 8 hours to go through EVERYTHING on your phone and try to control the spying. I cover all my cameras too. And recently stopped taking the phone everywhere with me.
Yes that would be a good video, A guy I knew bought a new phone once and went home to a normal day went to bed and when he got up the next morning and started to move a round all of a sudden the phone blarred out good morning jack ,he was shocked and mad.
It you turn on crying baby or doorbell detector, I'd think its like having siri or Alexa on. It's always listening. I keep those off.
Common sense should dictate to you that if you use the assistant on the phone the microphone is on in order to hear your commands.🤷🏼♂️ Sometimes I forget common sense today is not as common as it used to be. If you don't go into Settings and turn it off/disable it is on.
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?
What are they going to hear? Me cussing that I lost my 10mm socket, again?!!
We always joke that if anyone is listening to us they will probably fall asleep from boredom!