[RikNieu]

I have had this happen with my Xiaomi android phone. I've had a couple of times where I get ads served pertaining to conversations I've had with random people when my phone is laying nearby, silently listenting. No googling the topics from my side, simply random conversation.

It even seems to be able to translate conversations in my native language into displaying English ads. Creepy as hell.

I'm thinking of going back to Apple, it's just that their phones as so bloody expensive now. Sigh.

[Paraesthetic]

Make sure its not just cognitive reticulation, and the priming of your brain where previously you wouldn't have noticed these things.

[RikNieu]

It's not. It shows ads based on other peoples interests or what they have talked about with me. It was about things that wouldn't be in my personal sphere of interests in general. Specific ride-sharing companies, specific speakers a friend bought. A random conversation about a specific and obscure topic I had with my wife...

Lets just say that I'm pretty sure its not may brain going bonkers with pattern recognition here.

[captain_mars]

I've had the same experience.

Recently, we were visited by my sister-in-law. We ended up talking about a topic, say Topic X. Topic X _never_ comes up when I and my wife are alone; it is simply not a part of our life. We have been married for 15 years, without talking about it even once.

However, it did come up while talking with my s-i-l, and my Android phone was lying nearby. Minutes later, after my sister in law had left, I was presented a Topic X - related ad on YouTube.

It was displayed only once, I ignored it, and no Topic X - related ad was shown after that.

[touristtam]

So you have not disabled all application's access to the microphone unless the one that actually need it? I thought that was the appeal of MIUI in the first place.

[RikNieu]

I have not allowed access to apps that don't need it, do I have to go through each app and check its permissions manually? Also, the mic works on bg mode?

[msadowski]

Same here with a OnePlus android phone. I've been also eying Apple for a while but stuff like disabling Bluetooth for a short period of time puts me off slightly.