Is Your Phone Spying on You? Yes and Here Are 10 Reasons It's Worse Than You Think

Waffle Ladders - Episode 28
Is Your Phone Spying on You? (The 10 Creepiest Ways It Totally Is)

What do you get when you mix smartphones, surveillance tech, zero privacy, and a society that keeps saying “I have nothing to hide” while giving TikTok access to their pancreas? You get today’s digital horror story disguised as convenience. 📱👀🕵️‍♂️

In today’s episode of Waffle Ladders, Dad breaks down the creepiest ways your phone has become a pocket-sized narc that reports on you more than a kid trying to get his sibling grounded. Meanwhile, Tanner provides “moral support,” suspicious knowledge about spyware, and commentary nobody asked for.

Together, they rank the 10 most unsettling ways your phone listens, watches, tracks, logs, analyzes, monetizes, and sells your existence for ad revenue — all before you’ve had breakfast.

📌 Chapters

00:00 – Intro (“Why does my phone know I want tacos?”)
00:52 – #10 They’re Listening… Literally (Microphone Eavesdropping)
01:37 – #9 Surprise! You’re on Camera (Remote Camera Activation)
02:04 – #8 GPS Is Never Really “Off” (Location Tracking)
02:43 – #7 Ultrasonic Beacons (Ads You Can’t Even Hear)
03:34 – #6 Government Backdoors (Spyware on Easy Mode)
04:30 – #5 Off Doesn’t Mean Off (Tracking While “Dead”)
05:11 – #4 Data Brokers Selling You by the Pound
05:55 – #3 Stalkerware & Corporate Snooping
06:54 – #2 Zero-Click Spyware (The Pegasus Nightmare)
07:55 – #1 Fake Cell Towers (Stingrays in the Wild)
08:22 – Outro (Smart Toaster Asks for Blood Type)

💬 Join the Paranoia Parade:

Do you think this is just capitalism doing capitalism, or are we already living inside a surveillance thriller and nobody told us?

Are you Team:
🔹 “Meh, I have nothing to hide”
🔹 “I’m switching to a flip phone”
🔹 “Tanner, why do you know what Pegasus is?”
or
🔹 “Burn it all and move to the woods” ?

Drop your take in the comments — and yes, your phone will store that too.

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🎙 Voices & Shenanigans: Bill & Tanner
🎬 Edited in: Filmora (powered by caffeine & regret)

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