OpenAI confirmed ads for all free and Go users in the US. Your queries now feed ad networks. There's a better way.
Your ChatGPT queries are about to become ad inventory. The same questions you'd ask a trusted advisor — about your health, your finances, your business — will now be processed by the Criteo ad network and used to target you.
WPP, Omnicom, and Dentsu are already in the test program. This is not a small experiment. It's a permanent shift in what ChatGPT is.
The good news: you don't have to stay.
OpenClaw is the open-source AI agent framework with 334,000+ GitHub stars. It's what ChatGPT would be if it were built for privacy-conscious users — not ad networks.
Hetzner CX11 or DigitalOcean Droplet. Your AI runs on your server, not OpenAI's. Your data stays yours.
One command: npm install -g openclaw && openclaw onboard. Done.
From ClawHub, install the Private Search skill. Routes all agent searches through Brave, Kagi, or your own SearXNG — not Google or Bing ad networks.
Web browser, mobile app, Discord, WhatsApp. Your private AI, your rules, no ads, no tracking.
The ClawHub skill that routes your agent's web searches through Brave, Kagi, or SearXNG — not Google or Bing. Strips tracking params. Keeps your queries off ad networks.