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Acar also points out that, as tech companies look to phase out cookie-based tracking in a
nod to privacy concerns, marketers and other analysts will rely more and more heavily on
static IDs like phone numbers and email addresses.
Since the findings indicate that deleting data in a form before submitting it may not be
enough to protect yourself from all collection, the researchers created a Firefox extension
called LeakInspector to detect rogue form collection. And they say they hope their findings
will raise awareness about the issue, not only for regular web users but for website
developers and administrators who can proactively check whether their own systems or any
of the third parties they’re using are collecting data from forms without consent.