A new study reveals that up to 3% of the world's top websites collect your inputs before you ever submit them. This includes emails and passwords.
An extensive study reveals that up to 3% of websites may collect your form inputs even before you ever press “Submit.” That’s right — even if you type something and then delete it, these websites will still record your keystrokes and remember the things you chose not to input.
Using a website crawler the researchers scoured the internet and came back with staggering results. Although most of us assume that websites only record the things we type when we submit them, it seems that for up to 2,950 sites out of the 100,000 that were sampled, that was simply not true. It seems that, up to 3% of the time, trackers collect data from the moment it’s typed into the form.
The crawler used in the research was equipped with a machine learning classifier that was previously trained to detect email and password fields, and then intercept any potential script access to those fields. It seems that many third-party trackers have been caught using scripts that monitor the keystrokes when the visitor types inside a form.
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