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Developer Builds Tool That Scrapes YouTube Comments, Uses AI To Predict Where Users Live
Friday May 30, 2025. 11:35 PM , from Slashdot
![]() The tool presents a significant privacy risk, and shows that people may not be as anonymous in the YouTube comments sections as they may think. The site's report is ready in seconds and provides enough data for an AI to flag identifying details about a commenter. The tool could be a boon for harassers attempting to build profiles of their targets, and 404 Media has seen evidence that harassment-focused communities have used the developers' other tools. YouTube-Tools also appears to be a violation of YouTube's privacy policies, and raises questions about what YouTube is doing to stop the scraping and repurposing of peoples' data like this. 'Public search engines may scrape data only in accordance with YouTube's robots.txt file or with YouTube's prior written permission,' it says. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/05/30/2133227/developer-builds-tool-that-scrapes-youtube-comments-...
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