• rosymind
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    11 months ago

    I know people say they there are studies, etc, but I agree with you. My husband and I both don’t like Taco Bell. There were zero searches for it, we never talked about it, etc. So we decided to test it. We started saying Taco Bell multiple times in different sentences.

    Guess what suggested options popped up when we hit “T” into google or maps? Yup. Taco Bell

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      11 months ago

      Definitely not because most people use Maps for locating a restaurant, which most likely you do as well. Not because taco bell is the most common restaurant that begins with “T.”

      Nothing about these comments even hints at establishing the controls necessary to get accurate data on your phone mic spying on you. It’s all anecdotal and based on the knowledge about what information apps are able to scrape, seems like none of you guys really understand what they have access to.

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      11 months ago

      I just press ‘T’ into google maps and Taco Bell is on there. I haven’t been there in years nor can I recall even talking about it in a very long time.

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        11 months ago

        All right, fair. Maybe Taco Bell wasn’t the best test. I’ll keep that in mind for the next time

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        11 months ago

        It was a year or two ago, I can’t recall. But probably something like Target