diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 162d80fc..604c9dab 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@highlight-run/rrweb",
-  "version": "0.12.11",
+  "version": "0.12.12",
   "description": "record and replay the web",
   "scripts": {
     "test": "npm run bundle:browser && cross-env TS_NODE_CACHE=false TS_NODE_FILES=true mocha -r ts-node/register -r ignore-styles -r jsdom-global/register test/**.test.ts",
diff --git a/src/snapshot/snapshot.ts b/src/snapshot/snapshot.ts
index 988df4fc..32b911f2 100644
--- a/src/snapshot/snapshot.ts
+++ b/src/snapshot/snapshot.ts
@@ -555,7 +555,12 @@ function serializeNode(
           'BODY',
           'NOSCRIPT',
         ]);
-        if (!IGNORE_TAG_NAMES.has(parentTagName)) {
+        if (!IGNORE_TAG_NAMES.has(parentTagName) && textContent) {
+          // We remove non-printing characters.
+          // For example: '‌' is a character that isn't shown visibly or takes up layout space on the screen. However if you take the length of the string, it's counted as 1.
+          // For example: "‌1"'s length is 2 but visually it's only taking up 1 character width.
+          // If we don't filter does out, our string obfuscation could have more characters than what was originally presented.
+          textContent = textContent.replace(/[^ -~]+/g, '');
           textContent =
             textContent
               ?.split(' ')