How Every Online Comment Feeds a File You’ll Never See

AI tools can now build a disturbingly complete portrait of you from the digital crumbs you didn’t know you were leaving.

Christina Maas

Your half-baked opinion just turned into a government-grade behavioral profile. YouTube-Tools is the latest entry in the DIY surveillance economy, where anonymity goes to die and the comment section becomes your confession booth.

For twenty bucks a month, you too can become a junior NSA operative, sifting through the digital entrails of YouTube randos and forming dossiers out of their likes, language shifts, and lukewarm takes on Taylor Swift.

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