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OpenAI has quietly enabled marketing cookies by default for all free ChatGPT users, sharing cookie IDs and email addresses with advertising partners to promote its products on platforms like Instagram. Chat content is not being shared, but the opt-out approach marks a major shift in how the company monetizes its 90%+ free user base.
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OpenAI Shares ChatGPT User Data With Advertisers as EU Expansion Begins
OpenAI updated its U.S. privacy policy to share free users' data with advertisers and enable marketing cookies by default. A conversion tracking pixel with EU consent management signals an imminent European ad rollout. Here's what builders need to know about the data boundary shifts.