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Nah, they're always listening, what you described is just a placebo button.
why is this downvoted? you cant prove its not, if its proprietry. and since the companies listening just happen to profit off data collection (and break/bend the law often), its safe to assume they do this.
Because you can prove it by monitoring network requests with a packet sniffer, which has been done.
Interesting. I haven’t seen this myself but it wouldn’t really surprise me.
It's a standard tactic for people who do networking things
Yeah. I work in that general field but not at the user level like that so never got into packet sniffing. Now’s as good a time as ever eh?
Probably bots controlled by people hired by the companies that spy on us through those things.