web-beacon

Web beacon

noun Digital Technology.
a very small graphic image or other object embedded in an HTML-formatted Web page or e-mail, used to track the online actions and activity of users: Web beacons that monitor customer preferences. Also, web beacon. Also called Web bug.
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