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ATDMT is a tracking cookie [1] served by Facebook subsidiary Atlas Solutions [2] and used as a third-party cookie by several websites. The cookie originates from the domain atdmt.com which is owned by Atlas. [3]
Lightbeam (called Collusion in its experimental version) was an add-on for Firefox that displays third party tracking cookies placed on the user's computer while visiting various websites. It displays a graph of the interactions and connections of sites visited and the tracking sites to which they provide information. [2]
Web tracking is the practice by which operators of websites and third parties collect, store and share information about visitors' activities on the World Wide Web.Analysis of a user's behaviour may be used to provide content that enables the operator to infer their preferences and may be of interest to various parties, such as advertisers.
"Cookies have a bad reputation because they facilitate tracking, including across websites," Steinberg says. That can allow a provider to track your activity wherever you go online, he points out.
A cookie is a small piece of data stored on your computer by your web browser. With cookies turned on, the next time you return to a website, it will remember things like your login info, your site preferences, or even items you placed in a virtual shopping cart! • Enable cookies in Firefox • Enable cookies in Chrome
Web beacons embedded in emails have greater privacy implications than beacons embedded in web pages. Through the use of an embedded beacon, the sender of an email – or even a third party – can record the same sort of information as an advertiser on a website, namely the time that the email was read, the IP address of the computer that was used to read the email (or the IP address of the ...
Evercookie, and many other emerged new technologies in persistent data tracking, is a response to internet users' tendency of deleting cookie storage. In this system of information exchange, some consumers believe they are being compensated with greater personalization information, or sometimes even financial compensation from the related ...
A browser's cache stores temporary website files which allows the site to load faster in future sessions. This data will be recreated every time you visit the webpage, though at times it can become corrupted.