[Gllug] 1 pixel in size?

[David Damerell]

On Friday, 17 Aug 2001, Dean wrote:
>On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 08:37:28AM +0100, Gordon Joly wrote:
>>>Web bugs are hidden graphics embedded in web pages
>>>primed to collect information about visitors to the site.
>>In other words, a 1 pixel gif, linked to some Javascript.
>You can go down to the level of individual mouse clicks on different pages in
>the site and report the whole thing back to pretty much any server
>you chose. It does require Java and Javascript to work correctly

... resulting, curiously enough, in lynx-enhanced pages [1]. Or at any
rate 'reason to turn off Javascript #34,682'.

[1] Except that the kinds of bozos who do this will never write pages
that work well in text browsers.

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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