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Is apple now reading my keyboard inputs? (lemmy.giftedmc.com)

submitted 8 months ago by haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I‘m a little shocked rn. I am using fluffychat on ios since my legacy iphone is still working and I dont want to throw it out until its done.

But this happened the first time: I wrote „then I might need to take a taxi“ to someone and an installed taxi app immediately popped up via notifications saying „get off 25% today“ or something.

This freaks me out big time since it could mean every word I write on this phone gets checked by something/someone.

Anyone else? (It was literally the second I wrote the sentence)

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[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I really think it was coincidence. But, it’s something to keep in mind.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely possible, I agree.

Funny that a lot of folks seem to disagree with my statement about statistical probability. Its like the difference between illegal and wrong. A huge amount of people I met think that things that are legal are also correct and vice versa, like slavery once was for example. It’s scary to them that things might be different/worse than they seem.

Have a good one.

[–] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Nice tangent.

I think people might find it interesting how one thing is statistically unlikely but the likely coincidence is… probably Apple spying on your keystrokes. Human pattern matching strikes again.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com -4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I dont speak sarcasm so if you were implying something you didnt write, I didnt catch it.

From experience with big tech, it is actually not unthinkable that we dont know the extent of their actions. Of course it is more likely that someone would have caught this if it is going on for some time but it also is possible that stuff is evolving, just backwards.

[–] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It is. It is also possible that out of the thousands of people who received a notification, you happened to be typing something about a similar subject and nobody else found it odd in the least bit.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com -1 points 8 months ago

Absolutely. I agree that this is possible. My point here being that it being a coincidence (in our current climate with consumer surveillance being on an all time high) isnt that likely anymore.