[sensanaty]

We had one of these, Hotjar I think. To their (smallest possible) credit, there's 0 legible text in the replays, you basically only see the rough UI outlines and everything else is redacted. Wouldn't be surprised if it featured a keylogger though.

I asked our data team what the fuck they need this level of tracking for, and they said "wasn't us, it was marketing that requested it".

So I ask many of the marketing people, and they just say "oh we thought it could be useful!" Without actually clarifying the "how" or "why".

I removed that shit with a quickness after that, and no one's complained so far (duh)

I love the GDPR if nothing else because it scares the - excuse the vulgarity and ableism - retarded decision makers into not doing idiotic shit like this. For any kind of bullshit like this I just bring up GDPR as a shield these days and none of it goes through

[ipdashc]

> So I ask many of the marketing people, and they just say "oh we thought it could be useful!" Without actually clarifying the "how" or "why".

This stuff bugs me so much; it all feels so cargo-culty. Even ignoring privacy, I wonder how much money and computing power is burned on buying and collecting data that nobody needs and that doesn't actually serve any significant business purpose.