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I do not want one-pixel gifs, because the only use of such techniques is exploiting the HTTP "referer" field.

They used to be somewhat legitimately used for spacing and sizing table-based HTML layouts (through the mid-2000s or so). That's rarely done today -- layout is in CSS and gifs are generally used for tracking.

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