Re: How do web beacons work?

[Thorsten Holz <thorsten.holz () mmweg rwth-aachen de>]

Lance Spitzner wrote:
> Okay, what exactly is a web beacon?  Its sounds kinda like a honeytoken, 
> but I've never heard of the term before.  Now that I did a google, looks 
> like quite a few are using them to track users.  What exactly is a 'web 
> beacon' and how does it technically work?
>
>   http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/beacons/details.html

Sound like a so called "web bug"

http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Marketing/web_bug.html

Probably yahoo uses the term "web beacon" for marketing reasons :)

Just my 0.02 Euro,
  Thorsten