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Your lifelong browsing history is suddenly available online. How are you affected?

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Angry Grimace

Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Nobody would be interested. It's just porn and none of it illegal.
 

Principate

Saint Titanfall
Agreed. I've certainly looked at sites associated with illegal activities (nothing immoral as far as I'm concerned), but none of those sites would land me in jail just for curiosity.

What are you guys doing that would land you in jail? Because even if copyright infringement would get you in trouble, piracy wouldn't show up in your browsing history; just pages which host pirated content.

It's clearly hentai loli porn and piracy, haha
 

kswiston

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Agreed. I've certainly looked at sites associated with illegal activities (nothing immoral as far as I'm concerned), but none of those sites would land me in jail just for curiosity.

What are you guys doing that would land you in jail? Because even if copyright infringement would get you in trouble, piracy wouldn't show up in your browsing history; just pages which host pirated content.

OP does say every download. One would assume that P2P and FTP stuff is counted.

Regardless of whether we are now law abiding digital citizens, I can't think of many people in my age demographic (teenager between 1995 and 2001) that didn't participate in the days of the internet wild west. Just the campus dorm P2P networks were dark dens of digital villainy. There weren't even legal alternatives back then, so people seemed to collectively conclude that it was fine. Hence the "You wouldn't download a car" stuff a few years later.
 

Aske

Member
It's clearly hentai loli porn and piracy

Loli henati isn't illegal in the States is it? I'm assuming most of these posters are American.

OP does say every download. One would assume that P2P and FTP stuff is counted.

Regardless of whether we are now law abiding digital citizens, I can't think of many people in my age demographic (teenager between 1995 and 2001) that didn't participate in the days of the internet wild west. Just the campus dorm P2P networks were dark dens of digital villainy. There weren't even legal alternatives back then, so people seemed to collectively conclude that it was fine. Hence the "You wouldn't download a car" stuff a few years later.

Oh, my bad; I missed that detail in the OP. But I'm fairly certain no one would be jailed just because they were outed as having downloded a pile of movies and music.
 

Osukaa

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What do you mean that was on my history well.... ill have you know.... * Knocks over water and runs like the flash

That would be me
 
Don't think I'd be in any legal trouble.
Unless... Oh shit, I did pirate a lot of stuff in my teenage years.

Other than that:
My family: What are all these japanese websites?
Me: Ahem. Uh, I just really like the culture you see.
 

turmoil

Banned
If everyone's browsing history were released, piracy would stop being illegal in a matter of days lol

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As for me, the amount of hentai I've read through the years must be in the high hundreds of terabytes so .........

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Fbh

Member
Well there would be some embarrassing porn, specially form my weird teen years. But at least nothing illegal. Well, except for looots of piracy back in the day.
 

Aske

Member
You can be tried under it I believe if they catch you with it and it looks particularly bad.

Even though it's just drawings!? That's nuts for America, although I know we have similar legal precedent here in Canada.

NSFW:
o-!-< <--This is a picture of a child with a penis on top of it. Everyone who reads this is going to drawings jail.
 

Angry Grimace

Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
You can be tried under it I believe if they catch you with it and it looks particularly bad.

You can be tried under the PROTECT act but nobody's bothered to test the constitutionality of the act (hint there's a reason why). There's like 5 people who have ever been busted for it, and half of them also had a lot of real child porn.
 
Until I hit 20, I would be humiliated and ashamed with the stuff I did online. Nothing illegal, but a lot of 4chan. I said a lot of bigoted things, abusing interest anonymity. I was an angry person.

After that period, as I near 30, I couldn't care less. They'll see my history of vanilla porn, terrible writing from me on writing groups, and dating websites.
 

Mully

Member
Everyone knows about my predilection towards women who look like Iskra Lawrence and when I'm depressed based on whether or not I'm visiting airsoft websites (I've never owned an airsoft weapon).
 
So this is like the time I accidently stayed logged into my Google account on my Mother's tablet and all of my bookmarks were imported to Chrome somehow? We didn't really talk about it, but I don't think she was surprised either...

So, I guess I wouldn't care. I have no shame. Sharing is caring.
 

DietRob

i've been begging for over 5 years.
I'm not important enough for anyone to give 2 shits about what my internet history is.
 

caliph95

Member
Loli henati isn't illegal in the States is it? I'm assuming most of these posters are American.



Oh, my bad; I missed that detail in the OP. But I'm fairly certain no one would be jailed just because they were outed as having downloded a pile of movies and music.
A lot on people on gaf would be broke as shit though
 

Jeff-DSA

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People would realize how boring I am. I don't look at porn. I spend 90% of my online time between gaming, sports, social media, pinball, and news sites. The other 10% is usually trying to find info to solve a problem. People would mostly be disappointed that there's nothing even slightly fun to dig through.
 
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