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<blockquote data-quote="Deleted member 65228" data-source="post: 714356">Companies like Google and Facebook have trackers on a huge population of websites out there, I am pretty sure they can track users of websites even if you aren&#039;t signed into an account of their service but this could be wrong information. There are still many tracker services out there which can do things like this, or other things... For example, the one I am about to link you to can steal e-mail addresses entered into forms and send it back to the website author, even if the viewer backs out and doesn&#039;t submit the form: <a href="https://www.manycontacts.com/" target="_blank">Auto-qualify your web visitors while they fill your online forms | ManyContacts</a>That ManyContacts thing is wrong on so many levels. People shouldn&#039;t be allowed to steal someone&#039;s e-mail like that from the viewer of the website. If they didn&#039;t submit the form, it&#039;ll have been for a reason. I would happily blacklist any service caught using such marketing analytics services for that purpose.So even whilst your browsing and minding your own business, prior to signing any contracts to use a website&#039;s service, you can still be watched. Literally. You can have your browsing session for that website recorded for auditing back later on. Or form fill-ins stolen even if you didn&#039;t decide to pursue with submitting the form. There&#039;s services for everything in analytics. Some of them are just stupid IMO.Sure, it&#039;s for a &quot;good&quot; cause and we are told about cookies often with notices which can be used for tracking but... what about all the other analytics techniques which could be invasive?Not sure about you but if I decide not to pursue submitting a form, I don&#039;t want to have the info I was writing in it originally sent off to the company anyway. It should at-least be VERY clear that the info I had started to type will be submitted regardless of if I choose not to submit in the end.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Deleted member 65228, post: 714356"] Companies like Google and Facebook have trackers on a huge population of websites out there, I am pretty sure they can track users of websites even if you aren't signed into an account of their service but this could be wrong information. There are still many tracker services out there which can do things like this, or other things... For example, the one I am about to link you to can steal e-mail addresses entered into forms and send it back to the website author, even if the viewer backs out and doesn't submit the form: [URL='https://www.manycontacts.com/']Auto-qualify your web visitors while they fill your online forms | ManyContacts[/URL] That ManyContacts thing is wrong on so many levels. People shouldn't be allowed to steal someone's e-mail like that from the viewer of the website. If they didn't submit the form, it'll have been for a reason. I would happily blacklist any service caught using such marketing analytics services for that purpose. So even whilst your browsing and minding your own business, prior to signing any contracts to use a website's service, you can still be watched. Literally. You can have your browsing session for that website recorded for auditing back later on. Or form fill-ins stolen even if you didn't decide to pursue with submitting the form. There's services for everything in analytics. Some of them are just stupid IMO. Sure, it's for a "good" cause and we are told about cookies often with notices which can be used for tracking but... what about all the other analytics techniques which could be invasive? Not sure about you but if I decide not to pursue submitting a form, I don't want to have the info I was writing in it originally sent off to the company anyway. It should at-least be VERY clear that the info I had started to type will be submitted regardless of if I choose not to submit in the end. [/QUOTE]

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