[cfelix]

I do believe they are capturing microphone data because I can't think of any other explanation for the japanese ads (not about japanese stuff but actually written in japanese) I saw when rewatching my old anime DVDs.

I was watching anime in a old TV without any internet connection and at the same time browsing reddit on my laptop. Things like this make me feel no guilt for using ad-blocks.

[radicaldreamer]

I think it might be one of those situations where the microphone data is being captured using some other app and then shared into a data network as tar-getting data, providing a convenient and plausible deniability to Google and Facebook for shady practices.