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by WhyNotHugo 1419 days ago
These are used to track around a person.

Imagine if a store put a tiny sticker on anyone who stopped by to look at their products. Not this person is identifiable as "stopped to look at product X" whenever they visit other stores from the same owner.

Personally, it just creeps me out, even though it's basically the norm online.