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To prevent duplicate data in Fullstory, apply deterministic data scoping rules that enforce hierarchical placement across user, page, element, and event scopes. This ensures properties inherit correctly and avoids redundant data capture.

Fullstory property inheritance propagates values hierarchically from user to page, then to elements and events. This scoping framework ensures child scopes inherit parent attributes, maintaining consistency without duplicating properties at every level.

For multi-entity listings, assign shared identifiers as page properties and place variant-specific attributes as element properties on each item card. This scoping strategy ensures searchability while keeping individual element data distinct and non-duplicated.

Apply privacy controls at each data scope level by integrating masking or exclusion rules for sensitive attributes before event tracking. This privacy-aware design ensures user, page, and element properties comply with data restrictions while remaining searchable.

Use element properties for attributes specific to individual components on a page, like a product card's variant, and page properties for entity-level data like productId. This scope distinction maximizes searchability and prevents property duplication across listings.