Amazon Sidewalk: what could possibly go wrong?

Had this conversation with a co-worker at a restaurant a few blocks from work over two years ago. His Android phone was clearly listening in. Later that afternoon at work, he began receiving advertisements for something we were discussing. It's been going on for a long, long time.
 
So now I need to go into every room in the house that has a smart TV , computer, appliances etc etc and in each of those different rooms talk about a different product , then over the next few days see which of those items I've talked about pop up on our PC ......then I can pinpoint what item is doing the spying? Lol
 
What will you do when ALL the things you talk about pop up? :rofl:
 
OMG , this is just plain spooky! Myself and the Mrs where only discussing this last night . Last weekend we had been talking about a new item that her mother had purchased , shortly after i kept seeing that item pop up online so I said , oh ...you've been doing research using my Tablet hey ? No she replied, I haven't touched your Tablet or done any research on the item whatsoever? WTF ?
A common route of advertising is to show you things to buy that your social contacts recently bought. You don't even have to butter the name. My brother in law got a Tesla, and I was getting ads for a month or two. I only figured out about it retroactively when I was talking with my sister, months later. The ad barrage for me started within days of the purchase. I thought it was random at the time.

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I realize that the title of your post is a rhetorical question but even so I gotta say "...so many things."

I unplugged 2 Echo Dots last year when, after neither myself or my wife had done any searches online of a specific and unusual topic and that we had discussed that topic verbally only between ourselves......shortly after (like by the next day) when I opened amazon to browse my account / order status page, I received popup suggestions that clearly suggested items that my wife and I discussed privately!

I wonder what else had been heard? My political views? :wtf:
So Google has out of the blue entered many of my conversations with my wife. Either some word triggered it or it's ears never sleep. One time Google killed the mood while we were intimate, Google said something, wife started laughing, I asked her if she was laughing at me, that did not go over well, then I joined her laughter, after some time we ended up laughing ourselves to sleep, I was not able to mark a notch on the Headboard that night, LOL
 
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I use to call a friend's land line, back when we still had them and leave a message on their answering machine, "Hey Google, turn volume to level 10, Hey Google play rap music...Hahaha, he would come home to a party :rofl:
 
If you want privacy, change your router's DNS setting to an independent 3rd party DNS provider, preferably one that doesn't keep or log lookups. Without that, your isp records and can see every single website you visit from the DNS lookup records tied to your ip. It doesn't matter if the connection is secure and encrypted. The fact your router had to look up the IP to connect is recorded along with what it looked up. No this isn't just for chess piece sites :), but for all sites if you value your privacy.
 
If you want privacy, change your router's DNS setting to an independent 3rd party DNS provider, preferably one that doesn't keep or log lookups. Without that, your isp records and can see every single website you visit from the DNS lookup records tied to your ip. It doesn't matter if the connection is secure and encrypted. The fact your router had to look up the IP to connect is recorded along with what it looked up. No this isn't just for chess piece sites :), but for all sites if you value your privacy.
These are the one's I use:

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Wife - oh its so big

Google - I've seen bigger :lmao:
Husband: " OK, I'm back from the deli."
Wife: "I see you got a big sausage."
Google: '"That's what SHE said last night".
 
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I realize that the title of your post is a rhetorical question but even so I gotta say "...so many things."

I unplugged 2 Echo Dots last year when, after neither myself or my wife had done any searches online of a specific and unusual topic and that we had discussed that topic verbally only between ourselves......shortly after (like by the next day) when I opened amazon to browse my account / order status page, I received popup suggestions that clearly suggested items that my wife and I discussed privately!

I wonder what else had been heard? My political views? :wtf:
yep and they can determine what vaccine you will get according to your politics and religious beliefs
 
Was I mistaken reading that Ring has this sidewalk feature too?
 
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