discuss: Using Webbug to track hits
Subject:
Re: Using Webbug to track hits
From:
Floris Lambrechts ####@####.####
Date:
22 Apr 2004 10:53:43 -0000
Message-Id: <4087A428.4090105@softhome.net>
Saqib Ali wrote:
> I personally think the name webbug did more
> damage to the technique than good. People have used this technique
> long before the name was invented. The name just gave a negative
> connotation to good clean technique.
It's a good clean technique, but it has been used for unethical purposes
too.
For example, spam emails with HTML content can contain web-bugs that are
unique for every spammed address. So the spammer can check the web bug
statistics to see which addresses are reading his spam and which not,
and then send even more spam to the active addresses.
> Just my $.02
my $.02 too :-)
By the way, I am in favor of using this technique to obtain some statics
on HOWTO hits. I just wanted to say that web bugs can be evil if you use
them in an evil way.
fl0
