Posthog Session Replay Portable 🎯 Limited

A quick note on legal compliance. Portability sounds amazing, but with great power comes great responsibility.

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PostHog is built on an open-source foundation, which gives it a significant edge in portability compared to closed-box competitors. You can access replay data through several avenues: A quick note on legal compliance

FullStory and Hotjar are "experience platforms." They are magnificent tools, but they are prisons for your data. PostHog is the only major player that treats session replays as your asset, not their product. You can access replay data through several avenues:

This means replays aren’t just “playback files” trapped in a viewer—they’re you can analyze alongside your own models.

This is the most common interpretation of "portable replays"—getting a video file (like MP4 or WebM) that can be emailed, archived, or opened in standard video players.