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by edm0nd 1519 days ago
Smart speakers and phones are NOT listening to every single thing around it 24/7 in order to serve you ads. That's simply just not how it works. There are hundreds of other data points on you that can be used for this like your AMEX/Visa/Mastercard purchase history and etc.

On top of that, it would be easily detected via networking monitoring.