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...
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A beacon is an intentionally conspicuous device designed to attract attention to a specific location. A common example is the lighthouse, which draws attention...
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Eddystone (Google) (section Google beacon platform)
Low Energy beacon profile released by Google in July 2015. In December 2018 Google stopped delivering both Eddystone and Physical Web beacon notifications...
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Query string (section Web forms)
HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Semantic URLs URI scheme UTM parameters Web beacon T. Berners-Lee; R. Fielding; L. Masinter (January 2005). "RFC 3986". "Syntax...
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location when transported Web analytics is the reporting and analysis of website data to improve the user's experience Web beacon is an invisible graphic...
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Cross-device tracking (redirect from Audio beacon)
stay on computers long after the user deletes his or her cookies, and web beacons, which are unique images from a URL, are also used by trackers and advertisers...
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Tag management system (category Web analytics)
referred to as tracking pixels or web beacons), used to track activity on digital properties, such as websites and web applications. It can also be used...
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specific location. Beacon may also refer to: Beacon (band), an American electronic music group Beacon (Two Door Cinema Club album), 2012 Beacon (Susumu Hirasawa...
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Beacon Status was a progressive educational initiative that the United Kingdom implemented based on the idea that organizational learning could be advanced...
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The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is an information system that enables content sharing over the Internet through user-friendly ways meant to...
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Beacon Hill (sometimes stylized Beacon Hill the Series) is a soap opera web series that premiered on March 5, 2014 at Beaconhilltheseries.com. Created...
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which users visit what websites. This form of functionality, a sort of web beacon, has been significantly criticized for privacy. Privacy activist organizations...
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pathfinding algorithm especially for wheeled robot Web beacon or web bug, a tracking object embedded in a web page or e-mail Bond Bug, a British three-wheeled...
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Emergency position-indicating radiobeacon (redirect from Personal locator beacon)
position-indicating radiobeacon (EPIRB) is a type of emergency locator beacon for commercial and recreational boats, a portable, battery-powered radio...
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In navigation, a radio beacon or radiobeacon is a kind of beacon, a device that marks a fixed location and allows direction-finding equipment to find...
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Spy pixel (section Email tracking vs. web tracking)
tiny, invisible tracking image (a single-pixel gif, sometimes called a web beacon) within the content of each message. When the recipient opens the message...
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Google Analytics (category Web analytics)
server as part of a request for a web beacon. The tracking code loads a larger JavaScript file from the Google web server and then sets variables with...
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prevent spammers from determining whether an email address is active via web beacon; SP1 introduced the ability to block email based on country code top-level...
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perform web analytics as an outsourced service, led to the second data collection method, page tagging or "web beacons". In the mid-1990s, Web counters...
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track documents leaked to whistleblowers and journalists by embedding web beacon tags into classified documents to trace who leaked them. The tool affects...
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both them and Navy Times reporter Carl Prine an email that included a Web beacon. People who viewed the original email or a forward of this email would...
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highlight web beacons inside of Internet Explorer.[citation needed] On many websites, users would see a tiny pixelated square next to each web beacon, warning...
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Beacons are small devices that enable relatively accurate location within a narrow range. Beacons periodically transmit small amounts of data within a...
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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...
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Letter beacons are radio transmissions of uncertain origin and unknown purpose, consisting of only a single repeating Morse code letter. They have been...
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propagation beacon is a radio beacon, whose purpose is the investigation of the propagation of radio signals. Most radio propagation beacons use amateur...
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International Beacon Project (IBP) is a worldwide network of radio propagation beacons. It consists of 18Â continuous wave (CW) beacons operating on five...
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Beacon Hill may refer to: Beacon Hill, Ottawa, Ontario, a neighbourhood Beacon Hill Park, a park in Victoria, British Columbia Beacon Hill, Saskatchewan...
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Walkers' Association Ramblers Association page on the Beacon Way Heart of England Way Association pages / web site Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download...
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Bluetooth beacons are hardware transmitters — a class of Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) devices that broadcast their identifier to nearby portable electronic...
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