
AI chatbots turn users’ most intimate data into a potential goldmine for advertisers, researchers warn
Researchers found that even when users rejected non-essential cookies, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Gemini, Copilot, ChatGPT and Claude still connected to Google Ads.

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