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by zelphirkalt 1708 days ago
Maybe you can try an analogy with shop owners as servers. Then maybe the following works:

Tracking cookie - A visitor card, which will be forcefully checked at other shops, unless you throw it away.

Fingerpringting - The shop owner takes your fingerprint from anything you touched in the shop, or even from you paper money or pay card.

Tracking pixel - ???