yemmly ,

This has already been happening on the Web for quite some time. For example Microsoft Clarity records everything you do on those dodgy Web sites you visit. And they assign a universal identifier to you that can be correlated with the IDs Google and your device have already created and broadcast to profile you.

And you think “oh but I use x, y, and z to prevent tracking”. Guess what: They make your browser do nonsense tasks in the background to benchmark your hardware and then assign a UUID to you based on that.

The only thing that can help this situation is privacy legislation with real teeth.

ReallyActuallyFrankenstein ,

This is far far worse of a potential risk than a tracking identifier. Bank passwords, balances, social media pages, full text chat Windows, everything you ever view all OCRed and put in a neat searchable database for a hacker.

yemmly ,

My main point is that “observability” tools like Clarity are screen grabbing whole Web sessions and have been for some time.

Blue_Morpho ,

But Clarity is an app a web developer adds to their own web site. So, yeah a website you visit sees everything you do on their website.

That's not new.

Screen capping everything on your PC at all times is new.

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