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  2. Web beacon - Wikipedia

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    Web beacons embedded in emails have greater privacy implications than beacons embedded in web pages. Through the use of an embedded beacon, the sender of an email – or even a third party – can record the same sort of information as an advertiser on a website, namely the time that the email was read, the IP address of the computer that was used to read the email (or the IP address of the ...

  3. Cookies, Web Beacons, and Other Technologies - AOL Privacy

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    Web Beacons. Web beacons are small pieces of code placed on Web pages, videos, and in emails that can communicate information about your browser and device to a server. Beacons can be used, among other things, to count the users who visit a Web page or read an email, or to deliver a cookie to the browser of a user viewing a Web page or email.

  4. Internet privacy - Wikipedia

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    Web beacons are commonly used to check whether or not an individual who ... Web 2.0 is the system that facilitates participatory information sharing and ...

  5. Email tracking - Wikipedia

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    Some email marketing tools include tracking as a feature. Such email tracking is usually accomplished using standard web tracking devices known as cookies and web beacons. When an email message is sent, if it is a graphical HTML message (not a plain text message) the email marketing system may embed a tiny, invisible tracking image (a single ...

  6. Enable cookies in your web browser - AOL Help

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    Enable cookies in your web browser. A cookie is a small piece of data stored on your computer by your web browser. With cookies turned on, the next time you return to a website, it will remember things like your login info, your site preferences, or even items you placed in a virtual shopping cart! By default, cookies are automatically enabled ...

  7. Facebook Beacon - Wikipedia

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    Facebook Beacon. Beacon formed part of Facebook's advertisement system that sent data from external websites to Facebook, for the purpose of allowing targeted advertisements and allowing users to share their activities with their friends. Beacon reported to Facebook on Facebook's members' activities on third-party sites that also participated ...

  8. Cross-device tracking - Wikipedia

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    Cross-device tracking is technology that enables the tracking of users across multiple devices such as smartphones, television sets, smart TVs, and personal computers. [1][2] More specifically, cross-device tracking is a technique in which technology companies and advertisers deploy trackers, often in the form of unique identifiers, cookies, or ...

  9. Spy pixel - Wikipedia

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    Spy pixels or tracker pixels are hyperlinks to remote image files in HTML email messages that have the effect of spying on the person reading the email if the image is downloaded. [1][2] They are commonly embedded in the HTML of an email as small, imperceptible, transparent graphic files. [3] Spy pixels are commonly used in marketing, and there ...