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No, you’re not being paranoid. Sites really are watching your every move

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Re: No, you’re not being paranoid. Sites really are watching your every move

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Whats a js library that would do this? Would love to put a demo up on my website to show the user.

I did this in like 2005. I don't recall it taking more than an hour. For simple sites, probably faster to just implement it than find a library and read the docs. Collection is easy. Just capture every key even and read the location of the the mouse in a sufficiently tight loop. Timestamp everything, bunch it and send it to the server on a regular interval. You can do it in 10ish lines of JavaScript. Playback is the…

> For simple sites, probably faster to just implement it than find a library and read the docs.

Not really - the implementation flow for tools that do this sort of thing are typically:

1. Register account 2. Dump JS snippet into page 3. Start watching live user sessions

Re: No, you’re not being paranoid. Sites really are watching your every move

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Who'd have thought running arbitrary code from random websites was a bad idea? Blocking all scripts (at least by default) is the only solution.

True. The problem is that websites like Walgreen, which simply break with no JS, are only getting more common. I'd like to make a point of simply closing the tab in such cases, but it's not always possible.
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