Is Capital One Shopping safe?

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Capital One Shopping is high risk. Capital One Shopping's content script runs on every website you visit and sends the full page URL, page title, and referrer to Capital One's analytics server the moment the page begins loading. This happens on banking sites, medical portals, social networks, and every other site in your browser — not just shopping pages. The data is linked to a persistent user ID and an anonymous ID that allow Capital One to reconstruct your complete browsing history across sessions. Every analytics event that Capital One Shopping transmits — including those triggered by ordinary page loads — contains a device fingerprint built from your screen resolution, pixel density, RAM size, CPU core count, network connection type and speed, timezone, locale, operating system, and browser version. This fingerprint is attached to a persistent user ID, allowing Capital One to recognize your specific device across websites and sessions even if you clear cookies.

Is Capital One Shopping: Save Now safe?

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