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by anayar 2105 days ago
> That's your excuse? Haven't you heard of artificial intelligence? It can move through thousands of recordings in minutes.

Doing what nefarious activity exactly? I'm not sure good sir, but if we want to make mountains out of molehills we're all free to do it... it's just an analytics tool like any other with the one caveat that they recreate the screen from DOM reconstruction instead of just sending over each and every click event like every other marketing tool (Heap, Segment, Intercom - you name it).

Sure, give users an opt out and respect that but otherwise the drama around this stuff is pretty wild.

You don't use the same argument when entering a grocery store - you're being tracked all over the place. Well, when you're on my website you're on my property and I'll respect the governing rules that say what I can and can't do without permission but hey, if you don't like it... leave?