The E-Commerce Trap: How Chatgpt Tracks You
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The article discusses how OpenAI's ChatGPT may be tracking users, raising concerns about data privacy, and the HN discussion touches on the implications of such tracking and potential alternatives.
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bix6
3 months ago
1 replyDoes it work every time if you ask chat to not include UTM? Just ran a test and it stripped the UTMs lol.
msukharevaAuthor
3 months ago
haha, that is funny. I did not think about it but I do not think it will work every time
msukharevaAuthor
3 months ago
OpenAI urgently needs to make money. Its most valuable product isn’t the LLM - it’s the users. The company has now set up an efficient way to track your behavior online and sell that data to marketers. The setup might look harmless - a tiny UTM parameter - but it can reveal a lot about you and can ultimately influence what you’re shown in the chatbot and what information is transferred to third parties.
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