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8 Million Users' AI Conversations Sold for Profit by "Privacy" Extensions (www.koi.ai)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by solrize@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

If the price is free, you are the product

I think you're both right, actually. But when I'm explaining it to people I add "If the price is free and the software isn't open source...you are the product"

It's the basic value proposition. If a piece of software is being given to you for free from a company that wants to make a profit...they'll be making that profit off your information. If a company/community driven project is free and open source, it means that they have different motivations than profit and you can be somewhat more sure of your privacy.