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Re: Apparently CodePen 2.0 sends data to their servers as you type

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Post by embedding-shape »

odo1242 wrote: post #19
embedding-shape wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, except for the cases when you happen to have the entire VM for your language running in the same tab where you program lives, and they both are all JS. Probably harder, and wouldn't work equally well for everyone, but it would be possible to have "guess language and autocomplete" entirely client-side, especially when it comes to JavaScript of all languages.

It seems like the main disadvantage would be that you have to load all the autocomplete data / model weights on the client-side and your webpage might be CPU/memory limited

> main disadvantage would be that you have to load all the autocomplete data / model weights on the client-side

Not sure what "model weights" you're talking about, but yes, that is the trade-off. Although complete autocomplete data for the entirely of the JavaScript APIs would be what, in an efficient format, easily below 1MB at least.

Re: Apparently CodePen 2.0 sends data to their servers as you type

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Post by Boss0565 »

nusl wrote: post #17
tvink wrote: post #4

You're gonna be shocked how many input fields do this for various UX features :)

Shopify does this. If you ever go to purchase a product on a Shopify 'site, and enter eg your e-mail address, it'll save it even if you decide to cancel and close the tab. Sometimes you receive spam from companies along the lines of marketing or "we noticed you didn't complete your purchase" type crap. Shit is rly invasive.

Have you checked to see if it’s stored in localstorage

Re: Apparently CodePen 2.0 sends data to their servers as you type

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Post by masfuerte »

Boss0565 wrote: post #22
nusl wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Shopify does this. If you ever go to purchase a product on a Shopify 'site, and enter eg your e-mail address, it'll save it even if you decide to cancel and close the tab. Sometimes you receive spam from companies along the lines of marketing or "we noticed you didn't complete your purchase" type crap. Shit is rly invasive.

Have you checked to see if it’s stored in localstorage

If they are sending you emails the address is not just in localstorage.

Re: Apparently CodePen 2.0 sends data to their servers as you type

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Post by weezing »

nusl wrote: post #17
tvink wrote: post #4

You're gonna be shocked how many input fields do this for various UX features :)

Shopify does this. If you ever go to purchase a product on a Shopify 'site, and enter eg your e-mail address, it'll save it even if you decide to cancel and close the tab. Sometimes you receive spam from companies along the lines of marketing or "we noticed you didn't complete your purchase" type crap. Shit is rly invasive.

Simplelogin is a godsend for this cancer

Re: Apparently CodePen 2.0 sends data to their servers as you type

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Post by maxim-fin »

nseskin wrote: post #9

There’s a detailed discussion of the same issue here https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1rj1oac/i_planted_f...

Indeed, it looks like CodePen v1 was sending data to codepen.io, cpwebassets.codepen.io, and cdpn.io. Now v2 sends to codepen.dev

Re: Apparently CodePen 2.0 sends data to their servers as you type

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Post by maxim-fin »

tvink wrote: post #4

You're gonna be shocked how many input fields do this for various UX features :)

Yes, but codepen is for frontend devs. And devs are more likely to accidentally leak secrets because, well, they have them

Edit: accidantlay -> accidentally

Re: Apparently CodePen 2.0 sends data to their servers as you type

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Post by VoidWhisperer »

midnitewarrior wrote: post #20

Look into https://www.fullstory.com/ , many major websites use this, it's basically a real-time video view of the user's browser screen. You can see where they move their mouse, how quickly they are typing, each character one at a time. I worked for a company that would have phone support for users, and we'd be watching their screens giving gentle suggestions to them as they were using our app for how to do what they…

Something like this would've been incredibly useful at my previous job - we often had to put together how a user triggered an issue using a combination of logs and analytics to track what actions they took..

Re: Apparently CodePen 2.0 sends data to their servers as you type

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Post by maxim-fin »

embedding-shape wrote: post #7
tvink wrote: post #4

You're gonna be shocked how many input fields do this for various UX features :)

HotJar and similar services are (were?) popular as well, and those record your mouse pointer movements and clicks as well, then displays that as an overlay over the application, so it's essentially a "screen recording" of your session of the application.

Not sure if they are still popular but in the past they may have really slowed down the site

Re: Apparently CodePen 2.0 sends data to their servers as you type

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Post by glub »

maxim-fin wrote: post #28
embedding-shape wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HotJar and similar services are (were?) popular as well, and those record your mouse pointer movements and clicks as well, then displays that as an overlay over the application, so it's essentially a "screen recording" of your session of the application.

Not sure if they are still popular but in the past they may have really slowed down the site

Now it's an entire industry. They call it "bot protection"
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