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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 ]
When a user visits a page, the fingerprinting script first draws text with the font and size of its choice and adds background colors (1). Next, the script calls Canvas API’s ToDataURL method to get the canvas pixel data in dataURL format (2), which is basically a Base64 encoded representation of the binary pixel data.
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 ...
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Web tracking is the practice by which operators of websites and third parties collect, store and share information about visitors' activities on the World Wide Web.Analysis of a user's behaviour may be used to provide content that enables the operator to infer their preferences and may be of interest to various parties, such as advertisers.
Click tracking is when user click behavior or user navigational behavior is collected in order to derive insights and fingerprint users. [1] [2] Click behavior is commonly tracked using server logs which encompass click paths and clicked URLs (Uniform Resource Locator).
Social profiling is the process of constructing a social media user's profile using his or her social data.In general, profiling refers to the data science process of generating a person's profile with computerized algorithms and technology. [1]
Facebook launched the Facebook Platform on May 24, 2007, providing a framework for software developers to create applications that interact with core Facebook features. [1] [2] A markup language called Facebook Markup Language was introduced simultaneously; it is used to customize the "look and feel" of applications that developers create.