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  • My 2¢: the phones spying on us is not done via listening to our microphones but linking ads cookies with IPs and location etc. Turning a microphone off won’t prevent from that “now I’m getting the ads for the thing we just talked about” experience. And I think, in general we shouldn’t be getting any ads on top of the newsletters we opt-in

    I don’t mean to say “don’t put a mic off switch in”, just debunking that myth. Because the real battle (with ads. For sure some spying agencies do use the mic but that’s another battle) is on cookies, spying pixels, etc. Not the microphone