Point taken but these rumors are real a LOT

Agreed, when the attack vector is less obvious it gets less attention from both engineers and the public

Verge mentions it here

If you’re still skeptical, here’s another relevant Reddit thread

Everyone says this, but if you think about it for more than a minute you realize it’s impractical and unrealistic

How exactly would it listen to you? Obviously they don’t listen LIVE to millions of devices. Store your every word into a database? That’s illegal wiretapping in most states and Google Legal wouldn’t fuck with that. Even if they did: what keywords would they look for, and how is any of that data any more useful to them than the data you willfully hand over? (e.g. Search queries, cross-site cookie tracking)

You should be more skeptical about real, scary data harvesting, not theoretical nonsense like this

Google Home Mini mic switch physically unplugs the microphone from power