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A surprising number of the top 100,000 websites include keyloggers that covertly capture everything you type into a form

Posted by hungariantoast
Tags: privacy, security, internet, web, surveillance, surveillance capitalism, forms, keyloggers, advertising.digital, author.lily hay newman, paywall
https://www.wired.com/story/leaky-forms-keyloggers-meta-tiktok-pixel-study/

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Title
Thousands of Popular Websites See What You Type-Before You Hit Submit
Authors
Lily Hay Newman
Published
May 11 2022
Word count
510 words

3 comments

  1. Eric_the_Cerise
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    The "surprising number" is less than 3%. I frankly expected much higher (so, okay, I was surprised), and for well over a decade, I've pretty much assumed this behaviour ... basically since I quit...

    The "surprising number" is less than 3%. I frankly expected much higher (so, okay, I was surprised), and for well over a decade, I've pretty much assumed this behaviour ... basically since I quit using Google search for exactly this reason.

    4 votes
  2. [2]
    iiv
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    How many websites? I hate clickbait titles (that aren't even the same title as the one of the article itself).

    How many websites? I hate clickbait titles (that aren't even the same title as the one of the article itself).

    2 votes
    1. Kind_of_Ben
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      Between 2k-10k, depending on which of their categories you look at. I can't decide if that feels like a lot. Counting the "top" 100k websites feels like it probably includes many, many sites that...

      Between 2k-10k, depending on which of their categories you look at. I can't decide if that feels like a lot. Counting the "top" 100k websites feels like it probably includes many, many sites that that vast majority of people have never heard of. I'd be more interested to see what percentage of the top 100 or 500 websites have these leaky forms.

      Also, here's the site by the authors of the study: https://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~asenol/leaky-forms/

      3 votes