Privacy browser extensions misled users and sold 8 million AI chat logs, exposing sensitive conversations for profit without consent.

Urban VPN is a particularly bad offender. It intercepts all your conversations with ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI bots (glad I don’t use any), and sends them to the VPN vendor for resale. This is nuts.

  • MotoAsh@piefed.socialEnglish
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    7 days ago

    FOSS in most cases is very different than merely using a canned product someone else is “selling”.

    Precisely within machine learning, which is this topic, it’s the difference between running models locally and just using chatgpt/etc. There is a VERY big difference and a VERY different price for entry.