Odd search results on safari?

Question

Odd search results on safari?

Tonight my iPhone 6s did something disturbing. First off, Siri is disabled. Secondly, my phone was plugged into the charger downstairs but (apparently) within listening distance. Here goes... It's bedtime, put my sons to bed. I talking about fun things I did when I was younger, also talked about Dave & Busters and the cool mech warrior simulator I got to play in back before their mom and I had even married. Finish talking, say "good night". Come down stairs, listening to the crazy rain storm outside. Looking at radar, nasa images, ect. Looked up several things about this and that. As I'm looking through page links, I noticed something both weird and odd at the bottom of the search hits that had absolutly NOTHING to do with my search words and what I had been discussing with my sons away from my phone (which was locked and in standby about 20 feet away).

..... I'm not into the whole "secret spyware" belief or big brother but is it just me or does anyone else find the search at the top of the page "Current tilt of earth" and the very bottom link that populated from it very creepy? I haven't thought about D&B's in years and I certainly haven't performed any prior searchs on it in years..

Mac mini, OS X El Capitan (10.11.1)

Posted on Jun 5, 2016 8:13 PM

Reply

Answer 1

leroydouglas

Level 10

199,356 points

Jun 5, 2016 8:20 PM in response to darkmattermonkey77

http://www.imore.com/how-to-set-up-hey-siri-iphone-ipad

in the comments you can read some disturbing glitches.

Reply

Answer 2

ManSinha

Level 6

12,183 points

Jun 5, 2016 8:18 PM in response to darkmattermonkey77

Settings - Safari - clear website history and data

Force restart the phone

It would seem to be an unusual co incidence but if your phone is not jail broken and has not left your possession, getting any kind of spyware on there is extremely unlikely

Reply

Answer 3

Jun 5, 2016 8:38 PM in response to leroydouglas

I saw one (comments section) in particular, Siri working when the phone is unplugged and turned off. I just went through all my setting, permissions, applications, privacies, ect. Nothing in those jumped out at me as unusual or different then what they've been since I did a full reset last year to fix the issues my phone was having (forums do have some great advice). The disable Siri post was back when one of the updates slowed the iPhone's to a crawl (operation-wise) and shutting Siri off actually improved the phones operation *on a side note, I did note in the cell data usage statistics, Siri was being logged as using data on multiple occasions) Which it shouldn't if it's turned off. Another odd thing I just noticed in my review of cell usage tonight, even programs that are restricted to wifi only show up in the cell data but show 0.0 Kb usage. Siri.... Isn't listed anymore?

Reply

Answer 4

Jun 6, 2016 6:46 AM in response to ManSinha

This reply is going to be part slam and part response so get ready ManSinha....

I know, Its not spyware, mentioned my beliefs in that in the OP (And jail broke phone? To be rather Blunt, one would have to be an idiot to use any phone that's had its company installed software tampered with and allow for alteration/modification of the OS and (barring the few users who are geniuses with mobile programming script), jump on the apple forums and post about their phone having issues...) Spyware wouldn't listen to you then have your browser actively suggest webpages for you, that would be unbelievably stupid nothing to say of a dead giveaway to said "spying".

Anywho, This seems more like the whole Google spam-a-lamb where your email suddenly/randomly gets spam about heart attacks, the day before you looked heart related health issues. It's (seriously doubt) not a malicious act but too simular to the actions of a few Internet companies fishing for things you're interested in. If this is the case, they've (Apple or other) have taken a whole new path of revealing their truly inept privacy invasion tactics.

*p.s. Doubt its apple. They've been publicly denouncing giving anyone access to their customers privacy). Still, look at the BOLD print in the attached pic in the OP. The other links boldened are definitely keywords from the search performed. The D&B's bold words are specific to DAVE & BUSTER's Search parameter. Also, when looking for reasons as to why something odd indicating possible unlawful/illegal monitoring of any background conversations, the last thing I think you should do is an website history & data purge followed by a hard/force reboot? That's as "Let me take everything indicating an breach of privacy and delete it", that's pretty unsound advice. If I HAD done so, I wouldn't have had the screen shot to show others the proof of the probable concern.

Reply