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is Chrome recording keyboard inputs and passing them to YouTube?

by reactspa on 2/3/23, 6:02 PM with 3 comments

Three times over the last month a striking coincidence.

I use Chrome as my browser. Google owns both Chrome and YouTube.

I can't remember the first two incidents any more, but they were on the same scale as the third incident.

The third incident: two days ago I asked ChatGPT to give me the 600 most important words in Spanish. Today, YouTube has recommended me a video titled "100 most important words in Spanish". In at least the last three months, I have not asked YouTube for a Spanish-language-learning related video.

  • by saasxyz on 2/6/23, 8:16 AM

    every chatgpt chat has metadata relevant to the chat. So Google knows it as it is stored in your history. I think that's the most simplest answer.

  • by MattGaiser on 2/3/23, 6:03 PM

    Have you asked any Google property for anything Spanish related?