I find this somewhat akin to how people are monitored in grocery stores.
You better believe that studies are constantly done on shoppers using video cameras. Or heck, just managers using their own eyes to look at how shoppers behave.
You better believe that studies are constantly done on shoppers using video cameras. Or heck, just managers using their own eyes to look at how shoppers behave.
Sending keystrokes from a form I haven’t submitted is like putting the camera inside the fitting room.
It's their property.
A website (or app or whatever) is downloaded to my machine and then executed. So all this stuff going on behind the scenes is doing so from my property, using my resources.
I wasn't referencing intellectual property. Re-phrased: "It's their premises."
For example using an adblocker on my PC while viewing a website is perfectly legal. Same with scripts that interfere with tracking.
Now, if I go to the physical store and remove posters and cameras, I bet that will lead to some more resistance.
Websites are just some data and code that their servers send to my user agent. Once it's in my computer, it's under my control. Executing code and rendering elements are privileges and they can be revoked in case of abuse. If it's important enough to me I'll reverse engineer the website and write my own code to do what I want with zero foreign code execution.
For market research no. The purpose is very important (which is why it's so key in legislation like GDPR)