Ad-tech firms grab #email addresses from forms before they're even submitted

Source: https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/16/ad_companies_data/

And many companies involved in data gathering and advertising appear to believe that they're entitled to grab the information website visitors enter into forms with scripts before the #submit button has been pressed.

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"Furthermore, we find incidental #password collection on 52 websites by third-party session replay scripts," the researchers say.

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