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Re:Mental-health information 'sold to advertisers' by amelius on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @11:59AM (#20878462)
> And many used Hotjar, a company that provides software that allows everything users type or click on to be logged and played back.

Er, what?

Re:Mental-health information 'sold to advertisers' by tiborsaas on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @12:11PM (#20878591)
It even records the mouse movements, generate hotmaps, etc. You have to do extra efforts to filter out certain input fields, like passwords or credit card details.

https://help.hotjar.com/hc/en-us/articles/115012439167-How-t...

Re:Mental-health information 'sold to advertisers' by coldcode on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @12:17PM (#20878644)
IBM had something like this once, forget the name, something like TeaLeaf. We were forced to use it in our mobile apps until it became obvious it was terribly broken.
Re:Mental-health information 'sold to advertisers' by body12 on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @12:41PM (#20878906)
Yes, every mouse movement, unsubmitted form input, scroll, highlight, and so on. This stuff can also be used to fingerprint you. LiveSession, Inspectlet, UXCam are competitors. uBlock Origin on Firefox can be configured to block these.
Re:Mental-health information 'sold to advertisers' by jschwartzi on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @01:36PM (#20879505)
I was on the fence about installing an ad blocker until this.