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From: badgolferman <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: listening
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2025 11:26:31 -0000 (UTC)
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Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
> On 2025-03-22 14:41, badgolferman wrote:
>> Yesterday my friend who sold me the 2002 Honda Goldwing GL1800 showed up at
>> my house while I was working on the motorcycle. I asked him if he had ever
>> changed the alternator on this bike and he told me had changed it on the
>> 2008 Goldwing he once owned, but not this one.
>> 
>> Today while I was watching YouTube, a video showed up in the feed titled
>> “GL1800 alternator replacement”. How does this happen and what apps or iOS
>> settings should I check?
>> 
>> I have Chrome and YouTube, but the microphone is disabled for both. I do
>> not have Google Search app. The microphone for Siri is enabled. I have not
>> searched for this video and do not need the alternator replaced.
> 
> Ah!
> 
> Paranoia!
> 
> 

Regardless of whether you think I’m paranoid, this incident still happened.
Even my wife has complained about exactly such things happening except with
apps like Facebook and others. 

So how and why does this happen? What possible settings could be involved
that Google knows what I’ve been talking about to others in my garage?