⚡TL;DR
Tens of thousands of people have been accidentally sending their private ChatGPT chats — word for word — to Google. Why? Because a popular Chrome extension logged them via Google Analytics.
A Chrome extension called ChatGPT Export and Share made it easy to share ChatGPT conversations — but it also included Google Analytics on the public share pages.
That means your prompts and AI-generated responses may have been sent to Google servers without your knowledge.
🔐 This wasn’t an OpenAI leak. It was a third-party privacy oversight.
🛑 If you used the extension, assume those shared conversations aren’t private.
✅ Use official tools or open-source alternatives when sharing AI outputs.
🅱 Brief
A Chrome extension called ChatGPT Export and Share let users quickly create clean URLs of their ChatGPT conversations. The issue? Those URLs were public pages that included Google Analytics tracking — which meant the entire page content (your ChatGPT conversations) was potentially logged by Google.
👁 Leverage
This is a reminder that the biggest AI privacy risks aren’t always the LLMs — they’re the tools we stack around them.
If you’re building, sharing, or integrating AI tools, here’s what to check:
Is your data truly staying local?
Are third-party trackers injected into your share pages?
Are browser extensions open-source, or blindly trusted?
This incident wasn’t a data breach. But it shows how easily private data becomes public when convenience overrides caution.
🧠 Analysis
The extension added a “share” button directly inside ChatGPT.
When used, it created a standalone web page containing your prompt and ChatGPT’s reply.
That page also loaded Google Analytics, which recorded all content on the page.
Anyone with access to those logs — whether internal or automated — could read the full exchange.
Even if Google isn’t using this data intentionally, the exposure happened. And most users had no idea.
📡 Curated
OpenAI’s Privacy & Security Docs – How OpenAI handles shared data and links
How to Audit Chrome Extensions – Google’s official guide to reviewing what your extensions can access
🧬 Kernel
The problem wasn’t the model. It was the middleware.
You didn’t leak your ChatGPT data through OpenAI. You shared it — through a browser extension that quietly tracked everything.
In a world where AI is built on prompts, those prompts are now as sensitive as passwords.
Treat them that way.
- Black Box Brief
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