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Person in a privacy community using YouTube and multiple Google accounts thinks the only way they are being tracked is through phone microphones...you can't make this shit up.
As I have already mentioned in the post, I am not that deep into privacy rabbit hole that I am completely degoogled my life. If I did, I wouldn't have any privacy concerns to begin with ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
On why I haven't done it yet is simply because it is extremely hard. If you go full privacy-focused, you lose out on convience and vice versa. I'd like to stay in balance.
You focused on the wrong part of my comment. The issue isn't that you have Google accounts or use YouTube, it's that you seem to have very little understanding of how much data is being collected about you through these avenues. Instead you focus on some conspiracy theory about phone microphones which is still yet to be proven despite years of technologically illiterate people telling us that "the only way they could have known that is if they were listening to me!!!!". I don't understand how you get to the point of posting in a niche privacy community whilst still being so completely clueless and misinformed.
I was in the same belief that phones do not listen to our mics for years until that news of Facebook employees leaked chat came out.
Let's assume the incident you referred is true. It's still not the phone microphone that's doing it, it's the spyware/adware/malware app you installed from play store.
Solution? Degoogle and stay away from tech giants like meta, apple, etc. Use opens source alternatives.
If you are still paranoid, Android 13 and onwards, whenever your cam/mic is being used, you can see a green microphone or camera logo on the status bar top right.
What are you referring to? I searched for this and the results were just the CMG story. That wasn't even proof that the technology existed, let alone was being used.
Yes that was the story I was referring to. It doesn't really take that much technological effort to listen to your mic and send bits of data to server.