YouTube Personalization Study

This browser extension will collect your Google Activity, YouTube history (i.e. watch, search and comments), list of subscribed YouTube channels and generated recommendations on a set of videos. This data will be used to analyze the correlations between your online behavior and your recommendations. We will NOT record any other information, including your username and password for any online services, or personal information like your real name, etc. While we collect your data in the background, we will ask you several questions about your demographics and web usage. Your responses to these questions are confidential and will be used for research purposes only. We will not share your responses with anyone who is not involved in this research. All data that is collected will be stripped of personally identifiable information to the best of our ability. Our software is designed to upload survey and crawled data directly to our server over an encrypted connection using HTTPS. No data will be stored elsewhere. Once this study is complete, you may uninstall this extension, at which point we will no longer be able to access any of your information.