<quote who="David Kempe">
> i dunno whatr you mean by webbug but ill bet its a stat gathering
> javascript
That's essentially what a web bug is. They're often used in HTML emails as
well, so the sender can find out if you've opened it, how many times you see
it, etc. Hideously useful.
To stop most of them, tell Mozilla not to show images from 'other servers'.
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