{"id":156,"date":"2002-03-18T16:55:00","date_gmt":"2002-03-18T16:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jenbooks.wordpress.com\/2002\/03\/18\/web-bugs-are-bad-mkay\/"},"modified":"2002-03-18T16:55:00","modified_gmt":"2002-03-18T16:55:00","slug":"web-bugs-are-bad-mkay-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/2002\/03\/18\/web-bugs-are-bad-mkay-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Web bugs are bad, m'kay?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There’s a web bug in this post. It was sent from Barnes and Noble to my husband. We decided to poison it. If you’re as annoyed by deceptive marketing as we are, feel free to put this bug in your journal, or anywhere you’d like:<\/p>\n

<IMG SRC=”http:\/\/email.bn.com\/cgi-bin6\/flosensing?y=Fgh0Cch5S0Bzi1″><\/p>\n

Err… what’s a web bug??<\/i><\/p>\n

Glad you asked! See the gobbledygook in the tag? The “Fgh0Cch5S0Bzi1” part? That means that when Rob opens that email “they” (in this case Barnes and Noble) know that he read it. They could also collect other information, such as the IP address of the computer that fetched the Web bug, the URL of the page that the Web bug is located on, the URL of the Web bug image, the time the Web bug was viewed, the type of browser that fetched the Web bug image, a previously set cookie value. Anything that the browser normally passes can be collected.<\/p>\n

Here’s a good resource on web bugs<\/a>. Highly recommended reading, if you have privacy concerns.<\/p>\n

I’m sure you’ve gotten those silly chain emails, promising money or disney trips if you forward, ’cause the email is being tracked. Well, web bugs are the real way to track email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a web bug in this post. It was sent from Barnes and Noble to my husband. We decided to poison it. If you’re as annoyed by deceptive marketing as we are, feel free to put this bug in your journal, or anywhere you’d like: <IMG SRC=”http:\/\/email.bn.com\/cgi-bin6\/flosensing?y=Fgh0Cch5S0Bzi1″> Err… what’s a web bug?? Glad you asked! See the gobbledygook in the tag? The “Fgh0Cch5S0Bzi1” part? That means that when Rob opens that email “they” (in this case Barnes and Noble) know that he read it. They could also collect other information, such as the IP address of the computer that fetched the Web bug, the URL of the page that the Web bug is located on, the URL of the Web bug image, the time the Web bug was viewed, the type of browser that fetched the Web bug image, a previously set cookie value. Anything that the browser normally passes can be collected. Here’s a good resource on web bugs. Highly recommended reading, if you have privacy concerns. I’m sure you’ve gotten those silly chain emails, promising money or disney trips if you forward, ’cause the email is being tracked. Well, web bugs are the real way to track email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}