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by phkahler 3140 days ago
You guys are illustrating my point nicely. I have no doubt that session recording is very helpful in your debugging activity, and provides feedback for site design. The problem is that those capabilities are often used against the user as well. The people who enabled you to do that also enabled others to do bad things. The attack surface has been hugely increased in the name of convenience for developers. Remember, with the internet the whole world is on your doorstep and that doesn't consist of just developers trying to get their UX right.