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Is Google always listening: Live Test
Mitchollow · 1 HN recommenders · 1 recommendation months
Recommended by 1 Hacker News commenters across 1 months (2018–2024).
SignalTube analysis
Among 10 other demo videos tagged Privacy, surveillance & cybercrime, the mean is 0.7 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 1 distinct HN recommenders, about 1.4× that mean. Recommendations span 1 distinct month; the peer average is 0.7 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
33% of its 3 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2018–2024; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. A verified runtime is not present in the current metadata snapshot. A verified YouTube publication date is not present in the current metadata snapshot.
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- Mitchollow
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- Not verified in the current YouTube metadata
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- Not verified
- Hacker News mention years
- 2018–2024
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other demo videos in Privacy, surveillance & cybercrime. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Is Google always listening: Live TestCurrent video | 1 | 1 | 33% | — | Not verified in the current YouTube metadata | Not verified |
| Pranks Destroy Scam Callers- GlitterBomb Paybackdemo · Mark Rober | 3 | 3 | 75% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| Smarter than a Smart TV! (Raspberry Pi Inside)demo · Jeff Geerling | 2 | 2 | 33% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| The Visual Microphone: Passive Recovery of Sound from Videodemo · Abe Davis's Research | 1 | 1 | 17% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a critical mention in “Company Says It Uses Your Phones Mic to Serve Ads for Facebook, Google, etc.”. Its short rationale: the source snapshot has no short rationale for this mention.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Ask HN: Is Google recording our conversations to serve us with relevant ads?”. Its short rationale: Live test showing ads matching topics spoken aloud.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Ask HN: Is there any way an app can listen conversations secretly and show ads?”. Its short rationale: Live test of whether phones listen to conversations for ads.