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>>ridicu+(OP)
Truthfully... Yes. Many other apps and services do as well. Careful what you give camera and mic permissions to, and always read the privacy agreements, especially for FAANG. If you don't think Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Google, and Microsoft are watching/listening (with and without the light indicators), think again.

>>scrum-+V2
I hear this refrain most often from non-technical people. My response is always that it's a waste of resources and unnecessary to listen to your conversations. Advertising companies can infer what you talk about with other people based on proximity to each other and subsequent actions like visiting a website.

If two people stand next to each other and talk about going to Las Vegas, and one person looks at flights to Last Vegas later on, you could probably show ads for flights to Las Vegas the person they were standing next to and have them click on it.

>>Snorke+k6
As someone who monitored services that participated in unprompted mic-popping and camera-popping, at-will, for a FAANG company, for multiple years, kindly shut the fuck up.

Additionally, don't be mad when you find out later that companies know about your hyper-personal tendencies.