Automated Google Searches: vidIQ?

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When I open Google search bar on My Oppo Android phone, it shows some YouTube search queries which I did not do. It's showing such results for past few months I think...

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I thought that my android phone is hacked. Now today, I checked my activity log and saw this..

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That Chrome for Windows is making these searches. That means that probably my own browser is making the searches.
I have these plugins installed on my browser...
Avast, Aliexpress product importer, OneTab, Facebook pixel helper, vidIQ vision, The Great Suspender, and Adblock.
My suspicion is on vidIQ. Is this a normal behavior? Or they're trying to use people's account to make automated queries to manipulate the results.

There have been certain moments when Google asked me to verify I'm not a robot as it thought that the computer is sending automated queries.

I'll uninstall the plugin today and will let you know if it stopped.
 
Ever since I uninstall vidIQ chrome, there has been no new automated search query. Has anyone else seen something similar?
 
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