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Is your phone listening to you? Ryan George Extra Plus explains (www.youtube.com)
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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So yes, google has this too. You have to say OK Google before it is supposed to reach out to the cloud. Except they lied, and so did Apple. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr4rvr495rgo

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago

And with Google Android my phone was lasting 1 day, with degoogled android I would get ê days out of a charge. So whatever google does is doing a ton of network traffic.