Question

What's something cool we can do with embedded beacons?
I read on mailchimp that they embed an invisible picture in their email so that when someone opens up the email, their browser sends a request to mailchimp for that image, and when they send the request, it registers who opened the email. So it's like a beacon.

Also kinda creepy how you can send an email and know exactly when they opened it lol. I think it's ingenious though.

Anyone have a creative thought on what else we can use this for?

Answer 1

Well obviously, they can be used in secret documents. If by some chance if some one were able to open a doc, you would know when, and if that embedd link could activate your laptop cam you would see who did it.

Answer 2

I use it for marketing whenever we send an email so we get statistics for the email :)

Answer 3

wowwwwww. Nice Ultri

Answer 4

I don't think we're able to get their computer's location or laptop info with this. We can only get an internet-request from them.

Answer 5

im talking about personal use.

Answer 6

If someone were to attempt to snoop on your laptop.

Answer 7

oh LOL

Answer 8

Bro that's genius, I have my homepage set up, add a link that says like "MY BANK PASSWORDS" or "PICTURES OF MY BIG CRUSH" and they'll click on it, *flash*..."You have been reported for snooping on my computer"

Answer 9

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebRTC_API/Taking_still_photos time to learn

Answer 10

Hmmm.. technically you could potentially track IP addresses in order to associate them with the users of the site

Answer 11

(With email client beacons)

Answer 12

We do something similar, but for site traffic instead of for emails