I installed OpenAI's new browser extension last week, mostly out of curiosity. Within minutes, I realized it was doing something that made me uncomfortable — and not because it was poorly built. The thing works exactly as advertised. That's the problem. Here's what happens when you install it: any company that buys ads on ChatGPT can drop a small piece of OpenAI code on their website, the same way they already drop Meta or Google tracking pixels. That code generates an identifier, signs it with OpenAI's keys, and sends it back. From that moment on, OpenAI can connect what you do on that site — what you click, what you read, how long you linger — to your ChatGPT account. Your browsing history, tied to your identity, flowing back to the same company that's been asking you to "teach" it things. I kept using it for a few days, watching my own behavior get scraped and tagged in real time. Part of me tells me this is inevitable — we've already handed ove...