"Tech companies are spying on us" is a truism at this point. Endless articles and investigations have ensured that everybody is aware: they are spying on us, they listen to our conversations, they know more about us than we know ourselves, they know you're going to be fired or become pregnant or become depressed before it happens...
When listening to personalized playlists on Spotify and YouTube Music I skip every single electronic track with vocals. I listen to a lot of techno and related genres, and the moment someone starts singing I skip the track. I've been doing it for years. None of these advanced algorithms have ever noticed this simple pattern.
Using Google Chrome, logged into my Google account, I searched for info about Google AI plan usage limits, got an AI-generated response with a link to the help page, clicked it and ended up, logged out, on a Finnish-language landing page (because I'm located in Finland).
