Talk:Web beacon

Need history section
The next level of improvement to this page would be to add a section on the history of web beacons and their development. There is a bit of this already in there, but it’s vague and doesn’t have any references.

Examples of questions to be addressed: When were the first “tracking pixels” used that were deliberately invisible? At what point did it become possible to use non-pictorial elements as beacons? How long has email tracking been possible? -Wwallacee (talk) 06:37, 10 December 2018 (UTC)


 * I'd like to revive this topic. I see that many of the descriptions of how different beacons work are useful and clear, but they have a mix of old and new verb tenses that suggests things are no longer used.  In fact, beacons of older kinds are still in use, though sometimes with additional twists.


 * For this reason, I think a history section would be beneficial, and examples can all be put in the present tense. That tense is more fitting overall.  I made some edits today to the verb tense in one paragraph, and it works well... but doesn't match the preceding "back in the day" intro sentence for the paragraph.


 * Rather than freely editing based on my own POV, I'd like to see if there is any consensus about adding a history section and then figuring out a reliable source or two. Codexor (talk) 14:39, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Good 2405:3800:89E:3789:0:0:0:1 (talk) 01:25, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

Facebook Pixel
Facebook Pixel redirects to this article, but it isn't mentioned. If this is still the right place for that content, it should mention: Tax filing websites have been sending users’ financial information to Facebook. -- Beland (talk) 09:39, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

Facebook pixel, again
It seems in November 2022 a template for missing info was set into the article regarding redirect to this article from Facebook pixel redirect page. I didn't find Facebook pixel mentioned in the article Web beacon, where Facebook pixel was redirected mentioned at all, excluded the template at the top.

In what google found me (in first few pages of over a billion hits) were instructions on how to set it and use it (from the content's supplier's site. In those new name Meta Pixel was introduced and seems preferred, so another redirect from that name to this article could be necessary.

It seems the reason is that Facebook - with their acquisitions - got renamed Meta Platforms (which shall  IMO change (mis)use and meaning of the term meta- in science in informatics and science in general; next generation shall mostly misunderstand old scientific and philosophic documents using related terms, and shall not be able to use it correctly in their work in their documents of this type - not WP:OR, just a hypothesis of mine, but high probability: like windows used to be primary with meaning openings to let air and/or natural light into a building and now used primary for Microsoft OS).

One side effect of this name-change is rename of Facebook Pixel to Meta Pixel, another that all on above link mentioned acquisitions (that were not shut down) now use same technology (and a lot of the other businesses and platforms, too, Adobe example below).

To have access to Facebook's tools for use of the returned info you seem to need to have ads manager's account, probably now Meta for Business, which is probably the way Facebook (or Meta Platforms) gets much of their money input (again a hypothesis, no WP:RS, so this has no place in the article, unless/until someone finds a reliable source where someone publish about the same hypotheses in on a reliable peer reviewed site).

Well, in the list of the Google hits was also Adobe Experience Platform, which also includes instructions how to use this (Meta/Facebook/Whatever) pixel. Hopefully, they have not yet made every word available in their registered trademark... Marjan Tomki SI (talk) 20:37, 13 February 2024 (UTC)


 * I have reverted part of vandal-removed text (that patrollers didn't spot in time and) I could automatically, and two pieces (banners and the section addressing in 2022 what I was addressing as new section today).
 * I don't leave the article in a better shape, but at least I have fixed some of lingering problems with the talk page. Marjan Tomki SI (talk) 22:01, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

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