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Posted by lmbbuchodi 8 hours ago

ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector(www.buchodi.com)
504 points | 292 commentspage 3
emerongi 6 hours ago|
https://tinfoil.sh/ - ultimately there is no guarantee that the LLM provider isn’t spying on you, but at least tinfoil claims to be unable to do so.
DevKoala 5 hours ago||
> The mechanism is standard adtech. What has no precedent is running it on an AI chat product.

Doesn’t Gemini or whatever Meta’s agent is do this too?

hbcondo714 6 hours ago||
That is a nice sequence diagram[1]; I like how each endpoint param values are written out and the color distinctions. What tool did you use to create it?

[1] https://storage.ghost.io/c/b8/53/b853e3d4-3186-409d-9c7f-7da...

gpugreg 4 hours ago|
I don't know the tool used here, but DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash with bash can create a somewhat similar SVG: https://asdf10.com/diagram.svg

Disclaimer: I cut it off after a few minutes because I got impatient. It could have gotten closer if I waited longer.

lambdaone 3 hours ago||
Incredibly creepy. I'm amazed they don't have any idea quite how user-hostile this is, or the reception it would receive.
Jazgot 5 hours ago||
Time to start having separate container for every domain. I'm pretty sure this should be possible in Firefox.
gruez 5 hours ago||
Firefox (effectively) already does that by default.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/introducing-total-cooki...

LtWorf 4 hours ago||
Doesn't really matter, they can track you in several ways.
mitxela 3 hours ago||
Because at least one mechanism of tracking still exists we should just give up on blocking any of them?
BCM43 6 hours ago||
This has been around since at least April: https://www.adexchanger.com/daily-news-roundup/the-openai-pi...
threecheese 2 hours ago||
This might help:

``` ||openai.com^$cookie=__obi ```

Does this look right? AdGuard style.

amelius 3 hours ago||
AI is really becoming a god that sees/knows everything. Just what we needed ...
armchairhacker 4 hours ago||
The ideal personal assistant should know what you do on other websites, and your personal files etc. But it should be local.
al_borland 4 hours ago||
Even if I had an actual human person assistant, there would be parts of my life I would want to keep private.
13415 3 hours ago||
Absolutely not. An ideal personal assistant should know about you exactly what you want them to know about you, and usually that's in a business context only.
einpoklum 2 hours ago|
No it doesn't, if you:

1. Never register with OpenAI/ChatGPT, and

2. Strongly block ads, e.g. using uBlock Origin + EFF Privacy Badger. Yes, those don't work on Chrome, Edge and other Chromium-based browsers.

Also, even then - ChatGPT may be tracking your behavior indirectly through Microsoft's various services and platforms. But we should do our best to undermine mass surveillance and support individual privacy.

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