If I type in "satellite gir" the first result is that anime and some song with a similar name. This is creepy but I don't necessarily think it's evidence of audio surveillance. If the show is similar to other things your friend watches it might just be more likely in the search results.

I don't watch anime, don't use Google, and browse on Linux using Librewolf. I pulled up chrome on my android phone, went to Google, and typed in satellite. "Satellite girl and milk cow" was the third autocomplete option.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=%2Fm%2F0_z2zn7&hl=en-GB

~~Are you in Arizona?~~ (looked again and it gave Alaska, not sure what's going on there)

Spike in the past week or so of interest for some reason. Perhaps it has come up somewhere else recently to prime you to discuss it with your friends.

Security researchers have been looking hard for any proof of this for decades now. Humans are just super predictable even when it feels like what we do is completely random.

Smartphones are not recording conversations.

Strike 1: Battery life would be enormously impacted. "Ok google" and such keywords run on specific low power hardware that THEN wake up the rest of the phone when triggered. General recording would need the full phone to always be running == very short battery life.

Strike 2: The whole combined cybersecurity field are constantly probing mobile phones (hardware and software) for security issues. If there was either code or hardware that was always listening you would have seen lots of headlines with actual proof.

The word you're looking for is "synchronicity".

Going back for years, the “Is _____ listening to my conversations?” question has been asked with various improbable coincidences given as proof. But the answer has always been (and I think it is even scarier than the proposition) “maybe? But they don’t really need to.”

It’s not a big leap to assume you might have interest in that show if your network traffic was coming from the same IP address at the same time that Crunchyroll was playing, or even the same location at a different time; it doesn’t really matter. They’ll add it to their profile of you. Then you and your friends get together, maybe multiple times before this conversation, and your devices get associated with each other: Maybe its location data, maybe its being on a shared network, maybe its Bluetooth proximity, it could be any number of things and it doesn’t really matter which. Now if y’all are together for a while then google/facebook/amazon/whatever can reasonably infer that you talked about things (or at the very least share some interests). And what would you folks be talking about? Things that they are interested in! So then while y’all are together, and a little bit after, [Tech Company] can boost your friends search/ads/recommendations with data from your profile. It’s all just a game of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon and the big players just have access to so much data and processing that they can play the game that well.

I think people underestimate how far along surveillance capitalism actually is

I had an in person conversation with my doctor about a highly specific and unusual medical condition and on the way home Instagram decided to show me an ad for it.

Instagram was immediately uninstalled.

Yesterday I was in the car with my boyfriend and he told me about some skit show where a character says "Do it lady!" and we laughed and said the phrase about 5 times. When I got home I opened YouTube and the first recommendation was that skit. I've never watched the skit before and it's not something I typically watch. Creeped me out.

My wife handed me her phone to show me an Instagram.

The next video auto plays, "I didn't know you were into retro gaming" she isn't, she hasn't ever been, I have no idea how it knew she handed her phone off to me, or that I was into retro gaming, I don't have much of any Internet presence, I never use her phone nor insta gram, her hobbies barely align with mine and especially aren't in the retro genre.

I used to think there were better ways to track people and they didn't need up to the second data to properly advertise to someone, but that changed my mentality entirely.

Here’s the Pitch Deck for ‘Active Listening’ Ad Targeting

The slide deck provides more information, and raises more questions, about CMG’s advertised capability which it calls Active Listening. In December, 404 Media first reported on Active Listening’s existence using pitches from CMG’s website before the company deleted that information. The presentation, which the company has sent to at least one company it was courting to buy its Active Listening services, shows how CMG was marketing the product to companies who may want to target potential customers based on data allegedly sourced from device microphones. Google has kicked CMG from its advertising Partners Program after 404 Media asked Google for comment on the slide deck.

https://archive.is/ckFB2

Look at the graphic too. At the time, they were working with Google, Facebook and Amazon.

To rule out coincidence you need to replicate what happened. If it works again and again, then yes, some app is listening.

This has been debunked so many times it's not even funny. Did you know a squid correctly predicted the Superbowl and Eurovision winners too‽ It's true! It's too much of a coincidence not to be true. Very suspicious, there's NO way the squid doesn't have secret powers!

Uninstall the following apps:

• Anything google
• Anything facebook
• Anything amazon

That's not an exhaustive list. But the reality is those companies make money by spying on you in order to serve you ads. They have been caught red handed multiple times breaking out of the OS sandbox to get permissions the apps were otherwise not granted - to spy on you. Don't trust them. If you need one of those services, use your phone's browser.

It’s a well known fact that our smartphones report back tracking and other info. There are some harmless reasons what you described could happen, but you are right to be suspicious.

If you’re using a cell phone you are submitting to surveillance. This is the world we live in.

https://www.the-independent.com/tech/smartphone-apps-listening-privacy-alphonso-shazam-advertising-pool-3d-honey-quest-a8139451.html

Turn off your phone when you don’t need it.

Please sub any privacy community.

As much as you can, Degoogle yourselves. Ditch Meta, drop MS.