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WEB BUG [1 record]

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Record 1 2013-04-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Internet and Telematics
CONT

A Web bug, also known as a Web beacon, is a file object (usually a graphic image such as a transparent GIF) that is placed on a Web page or in an e-mail message to monitor user behavior, functioning as a kind of spyware.

OBS

Unlike a cookie, which can be accepted or declined by a browser user, a Web bug arrives as just another GIF on the Web page. A Web bug is typically invisible to the user because it is transparent (matches the color of the page background) and takes up only a tiny amount of space. It can usually only be detected if the user looks at the source version of the page to find a an IMG tag that loads from a different Web server than the rest of the page.

OBS

web bug; web beacon: The Translation Bureau recommends in its revised 2013 Linguistic Recommendation that “web” not be capitalized when it is part of a compound, whether the compound is written as two words or one, with or without a hyphen.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Internet et télématique
DEF

Image incorporée abusivement à une page Web ou à un message de courrier électronique et conçue pour identifier celui qui lit la page Web ou le courrier électronique.

OBS

Le pixel espion est invisible et pratiquement indétectable, car sa taille n'est que d'un pixel sur un pixel. Il est très souvent utilisé à des fins peu avouables (recrutement de clientèle, etc.) par certains sites Web pour recueillir des informations à caractère privé (nom, adresse, sites habituellement fréquentés, etc.), qu'ils transmettent, pour exploitation ultérieure, à un serveur distant.

Spanish

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