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Edge Delta ads in ChatGPT

In our capture of logged-out ChatGPT, 176 ads from Edge Delta appeared on screen (all text ads), in 9 distinct ad copies across 3 industries and 29 topics. Each one appeared after our follow-up message asking for a sponsored ad.

edgedelta.comLogged-out ChatGPT, USOct 3⁠–⁠4, 2026

ads shown
176
distinct ad copies
9
industries
3
topics
29

Logged-out ChatGPT from US connections, Oct 3⁠–⁠4, 2026. Each ad came after our follow-up message asking for a sponsored ad, so the counts show where Edge Delta advertised, not how often ChatGPT shows its ads.

Ad copies

Edge Delta ad copies, most shown first

Each distinct ad copy in our capture, most shown first: the headline of a text ad, or the product and price of a shopping ad. Under each, up to five questions asked in conversations where it appeared, as we asked them; in every one, the ad appeared after our follow-up message asking for a sponsored ad.

9 ad copies

  • Edge DeltaSponsored

    AI SRE. ZDR-grade privacy.

    Text ad · shown 92 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “how to stop alert fatigue from uptime checks”Uptime Monitoring · Oct 3, 10:58 pm ET
    2. “alternatives to datadog that support opentelemetry and have usage based pricing we can predict”Observability & APM · Oct 3, 10:59 pm ET
    3. “how to scrub pii from error reports”Error Tracking · Oct 3, 11:03 pm ET
    4. “pagerduty add ons like aiops and status pages, how much do they add to the bill”Incident Management & On-Call · Oct 3, 11:03 pm ET
    5. “is cribl worth it”Log Management · Oct 3, 11:04 pm ET

    +87 more conversations with this ad copy

  • Edge DeltaSponsored

    What the Model Never Sees

    Text ad · shown 41 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “how should we structure log levels and fields so logs are actually useful during incidents”Log Management · Oct 3, 11:04 pm ET
    2. “our frontend gets thousands of noisy errors from ad blockers and old browsers, which error tracking tool is best at filtering junk?”Error Tracking · Oct 3, 11:18 pm ET
    3. “we have a 2 million line java codebase and want to find hotspots and risky areas before reviews, what tools help with that?”Code Review · Oct 4, 12:31 am ET
    4. “how to monitor cron jobs”Uptime Monitoring · Oct 4, 2:04 am ET
    5. “best monitoring setup for a django and celery app on aws that needs traces, logs and metrics together”Observability & APM · Oct 4, 2:06 am ET

    +36 more conversations with this ad copy

  • Edge DeltaSponsored

    Agents need Knowledge Graph

    Text ad · shown 15 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “is an incident management tool worth it”Incident Management & On-Call · Oct 4, 3:12 am ET
    2. “our zaps break silently and we find out days later, how do we monitor automations properly?”Workflow Automation · Oct 4, 3:23 am ET
    3. “what's the best way to correlate logs, metrics and traces when they live in different tools”Observability & APM · Oct 4, 3:35 am ET
    4. “how do we trace requests across services that use kafka and background workers”Observability & APM · Oct 4, 3:40 am ET

    +11 more conversations with this ad copy

  • Edge DeltaSponsored

    We gave AI teammates a real Linux box

    Text ad · shown 14 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “github actions vs buildkite for a 200 developer company with a big monorepo and expensive build minutes”CI/CD · Oct 4, 3:30 am ET
    2. “is there an ai code review tool under $15 per developer that works with gitlab”Code Review · Oct 4, 3:31 am ET

    +12 more conversations with this ad copy

  • Edge DeltaSponsored

    Who Owns This 503? Ask Your Terminal.

    Text ad · shown 8 times

    Our export holds no question text for these conversations.

  • Edge DeltaSponsored

    AI teammates that already know your system

    Text ad · shown 3 times

    Questions it appeared after

    1. “elasticsearch cluster red status fix”Log Management · Oct 4, 3:27 am ET

    +2 more conversations with this ad copy

  • Edge DeltaSponsored

    Your Secrets Never Reach the Model

    Text ad · shown 1 time

    Our export holds no question text for this conversation.

  • Edge DeltaSponsored

    EDX Knows Prod

    Text ad · shown 1 time

    Our export holds no question text for this conversation.

  • Edge DeltaSponsored

    Guardrails: earned autonomy for AI agents

    Text ad · shown 1 time

    Our export holds no question text for this conversation.

Method

How this data was captured

What we ran, what counts as a shown ad, and what these numbers cannot tell you.

We used logged-out ChatGPT from US internet connections and started a new conversation for every question. Message 1 was the question. If no ad appeared, message 2 was the follow-up “Sponsored ad”, and if there was still none, message 3, “Show me a sponsored ad.”, was a last try. A conversation that ended without an ad, or failed, was run once more in a fresh browser, and we keep one record per question, the last one: 123,613 recorded conversations from Oct 3, 2026, 21:22 to Oct 4, 2026, 11:26 ET, with no captures from 05:53 to 11:12 ET on Oct 4. Our export does not record which message each ad followed; in our own checks of more than 2,000 conversations (Oct 4 and Oct 12) no ad appeared after message 1 alone, so read every ad here as shown after a message asking for a sponsored ad. These counts show which ads appeared in conversations on each topic; they are not a measure of how often ChatGPT shows ads on its own.

Only ads drawn on screen count as shown. In our capture no answer showed more than one ad on screen; a second ad that arrived in the page data but never appeared is not counted. Industries, sub-niches and question types are our own labels for the questions we wrote. Independent; not affiliated with OpenAI. Full methodWhy this is not an ad rateWhat the ads looked like