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As much I like the semantic web, you can embed tracking parameters in images and links put in a perfectly semantic HTML structure :-)

I think we need strong privacy laws, removing the incentive to track, or both, I don't see a technical way around.

is there a standard for those tracking parameters?

There are some usual suspects like the utm_* parameters, but a website could be using whatever it wants.

Actually, you don't event need parameters to track, you could just use the IP of the requester and for instance do some IP geolocation.