I am still new regarding privacy and all that, so i am sorry for any mistakes/ newbie questions.

I and my friends were talking on Discord regarding the Oxenfree plot (a game about a time loop). One of the plot points mentions a submarine. To his surprise, He received a youtube recommendation about a nuclear-powered submarine as shown:

he was a bit spooked about this and asked if Google is listening. I asked about his browser and extensions, to which he answered that he’s using google chrome and the extensions below:

my question is: how did this happen, and what should he do next to avoid this happening again?

thank you in advance.

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    Pasted from a 5 year old archived reddit thread


    You Should Know: Discord is spyware, and logs and sells everything you do / run on your computer for profit. Discord’s main source of income comes from selling collected data

    Discord contains a process logger

    Discord receives government requests for your information

    Discord contains features which allow integration with other spyware platforms

    Discord confirms that it collects large amounts of sensitive user data

    Discord does not make its source code available

    Discord explicitly confirms in its privacy policy[1] that it collects the following information:

    IP Address

    Device UUID

    User’s e-mail address

    All text messages

    All images

    All VOIP data (voice chat)

    Open rates for e-mail sent by Discord

    *All of this information is literally embedded within their TOS, but more info on a free hosted website here, with citations:

    https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/discord.html