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Youtube reads our conversation?
(lemmy.world)
I am still new regarding privacy and all that, so i am sorry for any mistakes/ newbie questions.
I and my friends were talking on Discord regarding the Oxenfree plot (a game about a time loop). One of the plot points mentions a submarine. To his surprise, He received a youtube recommendation about a nuclear-powered submarine as shown:
he was a bit spooked about this and asked if Google is listening. I asked about his browser and extensions, to which he answered that he's using google chrome and the extensions below:
my question is: how did this happen, and what should he do next to avoid this happening again?
thank you in advance.
That website is absolute garbage. Not to mention, the reddit thread it cites regarding program logging has a dev response confirming that program usage history isn't uploaded, disproving it's own point: https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/43lqyb/why_is_discord_recording_our_open_programs_and/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=2&utm_content=2
That website doesn't look trustworthy at all to me, so I went off reading discord Privacy Policy which stated the following:
"We generally do not store the contents of video or voice calls or channels. If we were to change that in the future (for example, to facilitate content moderation), we would disclose that to you in advance. We also don’t store streaming content when you share your screen, but we do retain the thumbnail cover image for the stream for a short period of time."
Take that as you will.