Wednesday, 17 May 2023

Is TikTok listening to my conversation?

My friend invited me to lunch and mentioned the word "cafe", but I didn't go.

After 4 hours, I noticed a post related to cafes in my Facebook news feed:


This post isn't very popular and I haven't heard the word "Cafe" for a long time, I can't even recall the last time. So I realized this post is not a coincidence, not again (something I type in ChatGPT also shows similar ads, either OpenAI or my keyboard is selling my data, as expected~).

So I quickly dumped adb logcat, hoping the relevant logs hadn't disappeared yet. Fortunately, it did retain the 05-16 19:39:17.603 log from the previous night:



The next thing I found is quite intriguing: