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I've always added analytics scripts on websites I worked on. It was second nature for me. Then when I got my own start up, I didn't just add regular analytics but one that tracks mouse movements so you can watch sessions back like a video [0].

I told a friend about my start up and she jumped on it immediately. I opened the tool and watched her interaction. Then I told her "oh so you opened the dev tools" She immediately ended the session. "How did you know? That's creepy". It was the first time I've actually felt like these tools invade privacy.

Yeah, we include it in our terms and condition and privacy page, but I don't think users truly grasp how those tools work. I understand that all analytics tools provide this feature now, but its always creepy to know someone can watch what you are doing.

[0]: https://idiallo.com/blog/spying-on-your-user

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This brings me back to the glory days of StumbleUpon. Highly recommend.

Nice! It shouted "Bot" when I ran this in the console

for (let i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { document.querySelector(".button")?.click(); }

I'm getting a PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR when I try to open the page in Firefox on Linux.

thats pretty creepy. I find it unnerving that they know exactly where my cursor is.

Another one like this -

https://sinceyouarrived.world/taken

I am not sure what I am looking at. It's telling me things which I expect any website to know via basic javascript. What am I missing?

Heads up: there's audio. It does add something.

This is a great POC about how you give up privacy just using the web. This data is bought and sold and more and used against you every day

I enjoyed playing with this. Wild how much it knows.

Hmmm. Clever and a little spooky!

kind of weirded me out lol...