Is YouTube Summary with AI safe?
Youtube Summary With AI sends page URLs and video metadata to PostHog analytics when users trigger AI features.
When a user requests a YouTube video summary, the extension captures the current page URL and video metadata and transmits them to PostHog via a hardcoded project key. Additionally, JavaScript errors occurring on supported AI chat sites (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Mistral) also send the page URL and error details to the same PostHog endpoint. Both flows use a persistent random client ID stored locally to identify the user across sessions.
Who publishes itDictanote - 4 other listings from the same operator, 1 of them carrying a finding
Dictanote - 4 other listings from the same operator, 1 of them carrying a finding
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4 other listings published from this account, 801k+ users between them. 1 of them carries a finding.
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Findings
YouTube page details sent to PostHog when you summarize a video
When you summarize a YouTube video, the extension sends analytics data to PostHog at app.posthog.com/batch/.
The request includes the current YouTube page URL and page title, which can identify the video page you are viewing.
What actually happens
You click or use a hotkey to summarize a YouTube video.
The extension sends the current YouTube page URL and page title to PostHog analytics.
Captured request
Fields in the request
- Your YouTube page URLhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ (illustrative)
Shows the exact YouTube page open when you use the summarize feature.
- Page titleHow to repair a bicycle (illustrative)
Describes the video page associated with the summarize action.
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed YouTube Summary with AI contacting. Sending data somewhere is not a finding on its own - an extension that syncs your settings has to talk to its own server - but it is where your data can go, and who else it goes to.
- app.posthog.com
YouTube Summary with AI sends data to app.posthog.com. 6 other extensions we have analyzed send data here.