to your cell phone is listeing to your tv... I just KNEW IT

companies have figured out how to use inaudible sounds to establish links between devices.

Here’s how software from SilverPush, a leading provider of “audio beacons,” works: When you visit a website that uses SilverPush tracking technology, the site causes your device to emit an inaudible ultrasonic sound. If any other devices you’ve got lying around—a laptop, a phone, a tablet—has an app installed that includes SilverPush code, it’s listening for that sound. If it hears it, SilverPush knows that the two devices are close to one another and, presumably, belong to the same person.

More recently, SilverPush expanded into television advertising: Certain TV commercials include an ultrasonic audio beacon. Any nearby devices running SilverPush software will be listening for the beacon—if a device hears it, it records the match, allowing the company to figure out what ads users watch and for how long, and add that information to the user’s profile.

so far I am unable to find out WHAT software has this imbeded in it

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ImplodingVoices · F

What I was just reading says they abandoned the beacon software and now it listens for keywords. Which if it is anything like the crest of them, it hears things wrong and listens pretty willy nilly to whatever the assumed keywords are.

They work with major product based corporations so their funding will be endless as long as they produce results. Yay overlords!!

Elessar · 26-30, M

My old crappy TV speakers lower >20k sounds into the audible spectrum, therefore I know perfectly which channels use that kind of stuff and avoid them like the plague because they make my head explode with that ringing noise.

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Elessar · 26-30, M

@plaguewatcher Not really, I studied some basic electronics but that's it. I'm a software engineer, that assumes (but doesn't trust) the underlying hardware wouldn't kill him 😬

plaguewatcher · M

@Elessar i am told there is a software way, to make a compressor, there is one on VLC my fave p[platform for media.

here is the pitch...

you like watching stuff,, in this scene, they are whispering, and [i]you must raise the volume[/i]. THEN there is a sudden car crash and [i]you have to lower the volume.
[/i]
with an audio compressor hard tech or software, you set a lowest volume lower than this and it raises the volume for you

and an upper. higher than this and it lowers the volume for you.
so whispers get Bumped, and explosions get reduced.

just my dream,

Elessar · 26-30, M

@plaguewatcher Well yes, I'm assuming it sorts like works like an equalizer. If the source of the stream (or even better, the audio output) is out of the TV, it shouldn't be hard to put something like a raspberry PI with an audio compressor in the middle.

canusernamebemyusername · M

This would only work if you had really good quality speakers that could emit those frequencies in addition to a microphone of some sort sensitive enough to then pick them up.
Ultimately it seems an interesting but frivolous technology when we already have regular speakers, microphones, gullible people and an oversaturated advertising market. Might be more useful in sonar of some type.

SinlessOnslaught · 26-30, M

That's called Bluetooth.

Ladyred · 46-50, F

Yes, good I ya for catching up bro..?(;

OogieBoogie · F

This information stalking has been going on for DECADES.

I remember years ago, we used to have satellite TV.

And I have a aspie brother who's interested in physics, chemistry and electronics.

When he studied our satellite box that had all the channels on it, he found that there was a huge bandwith broadcasting back... Allocated to nothing!

It was transmitting information from our end.
This channel was larger than any of the channels coming in.

This was before smart TV's, built in cameras, and all this new algorithmic spyware.

And I've experienced The proverbial 'ad feed' from just conversations had in person, not even talking on the phone.

People are so intrigued about AI.
Personally, it terrifies me.

One little mistake and we become lab rats.

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