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web beacon

noun

Definitions

  1. A web bug.

    • The sole purpose of putting a Web beacon in a page is to cause a secondary transaction in order to set third-party cookies.
    • A web beacon is a small graphic image that is usually transparent (and therefore invisible to the user) and no larger than one pixel by one pixel that is placed on a website or in an email.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for web beacon. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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