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Tracking pixel

A tracking pixel is a tiny, often invisible image whose only job is to report a visit to the service hosting it. It is the historic mechanism of ad retargeting: the image loads, the ad network knows someone came through.

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What it is for

It builds an advertising audience out of people who showed interest. For an agency, it is what allows you to re-reach visitors who did not buy — without installing anything on the client's site, if the pixel fires at the moment of the redirect.

How to place it safely

By storing an identifier, and building the image address from a template verified with the ad network. Accepting a code snippet pasted by a user would mean letting a third party run code on your domain — a pixel is an image, never a script.

The classic mistake

Letting it fire for automated visits. A bot that loads the pixel enters the client's advertising audience, and the client then pays to retarget software.

Consent

What a pixel must stay

An image

An identifier

A verified template

Never a script

A pasted code snippet is a third party allowed to run on your ground. The hole was reachable.

What placing a pixel assumes you asked for

What Subtraq does with it

Subtraq stores a pixel identifier, checked character by character, and builds the address from a verified template. Ad networks with no image pixel are absent, and the screen says so. The waiting page redirects two independent ways, one of them without JavaScript, and a bot never gets there.


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