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Your voice assistant is profiling you, just not in the way you expect, new research finds. (news.northeastern.edu)
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The three biggest players in voice assistants –– Google, Apple and Amazon –– have radically different approaches to profiling users, Northeastern University researchers say.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

eierkoeken

But why tho? That's such a random thing to trigger on. Is it anywhere near "hey google" in Dutch or something?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah it kinda sounds like it. The eier kind of sounds like hey, and koeken sounds a bit like Google.

I've had a few other accidental activations, that I couldn't explain that easily, even from podcasts, that I decided that I didn't need it. But in Android Auto I couldn't find to option to turn off the activation phrase, so instead I turned it off completely.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Ah, pronunciation must be different than I expected. In my head I did "eye-er" like in German, but I looked up Dutch and apparently that's "ey-er" there, so way closer to "hey."