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179 Developer Builds Tool That Scrapes YouTube Comments, Uses AI To Predict Where Users Live

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 05/30/2025 17:35 EDT

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: If you've left a comment on a YouTube video, a new website claims it might be able to find every comment you've ever left on any video you've ever watched. Then an AI can build a profile of the commenter and guess where you live, what languages you speak, and what your politics might be. The service is called YouTube-Tools and is just the latest in a suite of web-based tools that started life as a site to investigate League of Legends usernames. Now it use

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