Can Amazon website listen in on us?

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I'm just posting for traffic...I don't own an Alexa or anything like that...I use an android phone and I went on the Amazon shopping site, and on the front page was the suggestions of things they think I would like and it's literally things I've talked about with other people over last couple of days(I haven't searched any of them online or on Amazon...)...had anyone else noticed this

Yabu- it's impossible for Amazon to listen in to daily conversations

Yanbu- I think amazon can listen in to conversations somehow even if you don't own an alexa

Isn't it normally Google doing the listening on Android (unles you've disabled it) and then spreading the love/cookies?

Google triggering cookies?

All my recommended things on amazon are based on searches, wishlist and previous purchases

Itll be your phone listening. It's happened to me lots. You talk about something then get inundated with ads for it. It's not just Alexa who listens to you

This again? We seem to get this topic every week/month now.

Advertising in the smartphone age is made up of millions of bits of aggregated information that you provide third parties and people you consent to providing data to. That box which you tick in a hurry to get to the app you've downloaded? That's where they can gather tons of data in the background as you use apps, games and god knows.

Amazon is the same in that it uses tons of data (your smartphone location, your interests, previous orders, your age, your frequency of ordering) to serve up things you might like - it thinks it knows you better than your spouse, your parent, your best friend, because it knows all your secret purchases etc.

So I think it's within the realms of possibility that it's not a microphone based thing, but it's more the fact that the algorithms and data are so exacting that we are being served things we are likely to want.

The only other more sinister thing is - Google the word "Alphonso" in relation to this topic. There's a programme which runs in some games and apps which you allow them to access the microphone for. I don't know exactly how they work but I'd wager a bet some advertising is involved.