diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 9d5dddb1..fb46fbf7 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Type: Package
 Package: shiny.telemetry
 Title: 'Shiny' App Usage Telemetry
-Version: 0.3.1.9001
+Version: 0.3.1.9002
 Authors@R: c(
     person("André", "Veríssimo", , "opensource+andre@appsilon.com", role = c("aut", "cre")),
     person("Kamil", "Żyła", , "kamil@appsilon.com", role = "aut"),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 621477a8..2e36fd95 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
-# shiny.telemetry 0.3.1.9001
+# shiny.telemetry 0.3.1.9002
 
 ### New Features
 
 - Added a dropdown to the `analytics_app()` to switch between applications.
+- Resolve bug#192 that ignored excluded input regex.
 
 # shiny.telemetry 0.3.1
 
diff --git a/R/telemetry.R b/R/telemetry.R
index 7e5324de..bc2d72ac 100644
--- a/R/telemetry.R
+++ b/R/telemetry.R
@@ -757,7 +757,6 @@ Telemetry <- R6::R6Class( # nolint object_name.
             excluded_inputs_regex <- excluded_inputs_regex %>%
               purrr::map_chr(trimws) %>%
               purrr::keep(~ nzchar(.x))  %>%
-              purrr::map_chr(stringr::str_escape) %>%
               paste(collapse = "|") %>%
               sub(pattern = "\\|$", replacement = "")
             filtered_names <- setdiff(