Adrian Weckler
speaker
6,116 appearances
43 recordings
9 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 21 Sep
Adrian Weckler’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Is your phone listening to you?
You mention a holiday destination, you mention a health service, you mention an unusual object.
The next day you see an ad on Facebook or Instagram or TikTok or somewhere else for that very thing.
And you wonder, can that really be a coincidence?
I know that many of you listening to this and watching this are
are 100% sure in your head that it is not a coincidence, that there must be some way of connecting that conversation because you never talked about it before or you hadn't talked about it in months.
And how are you only seeing an ad for it now?
Leave aside the fact that it would be illegal.
Leave aside the fact that all the tech companies say that they don't do it.
Leave aside your own common sense that suggests if that were the case all the time, then there would be a big streaming bill on your phone or your phone's battery.
would be shot to hell because your microphone will be on all the time.
You just know in your heart of hearts that it's happening.
And a year or two ago, you would have had a piece of evidence that supported your case.
And it was in America and it was an advertising firm called Cox Media Group.
And there was a pitch deck, an advertising pitch deck that they circulated
and it went viral and it claimed that it could use active listening software that was the phrase they used to link physical conversations near smart devices such as phones with targeted ad campaigns and you were you noted that and you thought i knew it i knew it i
That guy Wankler has been telling me for years that it's not happening.
It has been happening and here is the proof.
Well, guess what?
The US Federal Trade Commission the other week has fined Cox Media Group for making it up.
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