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Is your phone listening to you? Ryan George Extra Plus explains
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So yes, google has this too. You have to say OK Google before it is supposed to reach out to the cloud. Except they lied, and so did Apple. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr4rvr495rgo
And with Google Android my phone was lasting 1 day, with degoogled android I would get ê days out of a charge. So whatever google does is doing a ton of network traffic.