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> Related PSA: many customer support chat integrations on websites today give the rep a real-time view of all input changes before you actually send anything.

Related Related PSA: Tools like Logrocket record full-fidelity videos of your entire session on a website. They're great for debugging. It also means you should assume that every website you use has a video of everything you did that people can scrub and search through (it's more than a video actually, it's capturing and re-rendering the DOM, network traffic etc... like I said, amazing for debugging)

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https://www.rrweb.io/ Is a cool open source alternative. We use it with sentry to see what causes our exceptions.

Also with a lot of these tools you can configure them to redact user input so you don’t capture too much.

We use fullstory which does the same, it's great not only for debugging, our company is Fintech and fraud and compliance departments can't live without it.

How do I block this?

Block javascript using something like NoScript (which will still let you allow javascript on specific sites you explicitly approve, but will block JS from running by default).

Something like

  ||*.logrocket.network^
  ||*.logrocket.io^
  ||*.lr-ingest.io^
  ||*.logicanalytics.io^

in uBlock/ABP filtering rules would be a good start. Not sure what logicanalytics is exactly, but it's used on logrocket's main page. Using NoScript like the other commenter said is safer though (this won't catch on-premises deployments of logrocket and it will stop blocking it when they change the domain).

You'll want to add hotjar.com to that list. They do the same thing.

Best to remove `*.`, otherwise your filters will match only subdomains of those domains -- unless that is really what you want to accomplish.

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