wearesilent Autor: hamr

You haven't clicked submit yet. You're still typing your email into a login form. But a script already read the field, URL-encoded your half-typed address, and fired it to an analytics server in a cross-origin request. This happens on thousands of sites. A USENIX 2022 study found 2,950 of the top 100,000 websites leak form data before submission — email, passwords, search queries, credit card fields — exfiltrated to third parties while you're still typing.

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