Web beacon

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Notion

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

A web beacon is a technique used on web pages and email to unobtrusively (usually invisibly) allow checking that a user has accessed some content. Web beacons are typically used by third parties to monitor the activity of users at a website for the purpose of web analytics or page tagging.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Web beacon”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Sohom Datta, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.