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

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Oscar

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Went down some weird rabbit holes back in 2004-2008 during high school (4chan, Deep web, etc). Ended up stumbling into some truly disgusting stuff that I alt+f4'd out of immediately.

These days? Maybe if they judge my PornHub searches it'll lead to a lil embarrassment.
 

GraveRobberX

Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
Realistically you could probably go to jail for just downloading music, games or movies illegally. It doesn't have to be porn/murder/gore related at all. That's what I imagine is the case for most of the 'in jail' answers lol.
I'd be on that same boat haha.

We'll team up in jail co-op wise

I'll be your ADC!
 

Jinaar

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If this hasn't been used yet:

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stn

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I doubt anyone would be shocked or anything. I've browsed my share of porn but its all very "vanilla" (i.e. simple male-female hardcore, not much more than that).
 
It would be embarrassing for sure. But nothing illegal, I have some femdom and cbt that is about the worst it. What can I say... I like strong dominating women.

The fuck kind of porn y'all watching to go too jail over?
 

PSqueak

Banned
i don't think i have ever visited something truly life destroying.

People would likely just react "woah, that PSqueak dude sure is into weird stuff" and people would question my sexuality i guess.
 
Pretty much whatever

Ive got a bunch of strange porn shit , but that's pretty much it, everyone knows how big of a nerd I am otherwise lol
 

PSqueak

Banned
It would be embarrassing for sure. But nothing illegal, I have some femdom and cbt that is about the worst it. What can I say... I like strong dominating women.

The fuck kind of porn y'all watching to go too jail over?

I think you're assuming people saying "jail" is for porn, but most likely the jail is for "piracy".
 

RedHill

Banned
I mean porn but nothing that's not normal or illegal. Maybe kicked out of college for googling answers and getting them off quizlet?
 

Doran902

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My fantasy football league would realise i spend way too much time researching football for someone who always comes in 2nd or 3rd and never wins in the playoffs. WAY too much time. I mean the defending champion is a patriots fan who watched 4 games last year. GOD DAMNIT
 

Jetman

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Goddamn. WAY too many "in jail" answers here. Seriously, wtf GAF? And I thought I knew ya'll.

My most embarrassing would be glancing at an ex's Twitter/Instagram account. Part of me does it to make sure they're alive and well. The other part of me does it in hopes that they aren't as happy as me.
 

Ric Flair

Banned
Ive sometimes wondered how likely the possibility of such a thing happening. Surely it's going to happen at some point in time, right? I'm sure there are security measures in place to ensure user anonymity would a data leak to occur, but you never know.
Side note: do ISPs still have user web history from the 90s? Is there a timeline for how long such data is stored? This sort of shit fascinates me
 

smisk

Member
Honestly I don't think any of my posts have been too bad, other than some being incredibly whiny and self-pitying. Biggest thing it would reveal is how much time I spent on 4chan a few years ago, piracy
 

Symphonia

Banned
Bear in mind that some of us live in the UK, where they voted not too long ago to ban pornography including: fisting, watersports, face sitting, BDSM and so forth. Basically anything with the potential for harm, even if simulated. Not everywhere has the same protections as America.

Also bear in mind that there are a lot of fetishes out there which I suspect are only not illegal because they're so niche.
Well, I'm fucked then, I completely forgot fisting and watersports were banned.

See you in prison.
 

Kart94

Banned
uh..well i just like to say some of the outragious stuff i say, i don't actually mean it. I like to say it just to get a reaction.
 
christ i thought for a hot second this was a news thread and this was about to happen. whole rollback of internet protections privacy got me freaked
 

TalonJH

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I mean, the worse they would find is porn and I'm not exactly secretive about porn if someone really for whatever reason wants to bring it up.

I try to not do say anything online that I wouldn't feel right saying IRL.

Edit: oh, there is a bit of ...cough..."piracy" when it comes to some movies that I'm not exactly interested in but feel like I should see.
 

shandy706

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I'd be fine I would think.

I did/had looked-up some crazy stupid stuff in my teens/early 20's on the internet. One would hope people could separate you doing stupid stuff young and then becoming an adult when they see all this, lol.

I loved me some Limewire back in 2000 too. The internet is like the one place I did questionable stuff as a kid...surfing wise, outside of it I was a parent's dream/great kid.

Adult me would be fine...typical 30+ year old male surfing. Maybe not typical Gaf 30+ male web surfing....I fear what that may be, :p. I'm a parent, and my computers stay safe for my kids material wise.

'Sir, how do you only go on 5 websites in the entire Internet'

Yep, me now too. If you narrowed it down...I probably literally only visit 3-4 sites, the same 3-4, every single day. One is my e-mail and of course one is Gaf.
 

Izayoi

Banned
Well, my wife already knows my darkest online secrets, so I'm in the clear there. My parents probably had some idea, so I'm not concerned on that front either.

It's more my job and larger "acquaintance" friend group that I'm concerned about. I can feel the side eye on me now...
 

Stasis

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I'd be pretty much fine. Live in Canada, gf of 8 years knows everything I do online. Maybe not super detailed, but the general idea (and doesn't care at all). My parents would likely laugh at most embarrassing things. I suppose my gfs parents would be a little shocked since they're a bit more conservative and in a bubble, but they'd get over it.

I've never browsed for anything truly fucked up.

All of you with jail expectations... Either you're all deeply disturbed with dark ass secrets or you just fear piracy in the USA.
 

Airola

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It would be a disaster.

The internet was a wild west back in the 90's.



Oh god, I remember when I downloaded some celebrity nude pics way back in the day and accidentally clicked "save as wallpaper" instead of just "save as..."
While I was quickly able to change the wallpaper to something else, Windows used to make it so that the image set as wallpaper in that manner would always appear briefly when turning on and off the computer.

Now, it was just some celebrity nude stuff, but I still had some explaining to do until I figured out how to get rid of that. But it could've easily happened with something way more embarrassing.

And that would still be 1/10000000 of the disaster this scenario laid by the OP would be :O
And that's only what comes to things related to sexual things :O :O :O



Now, if this would happen to EVERYONE, I doubt there would be many who would be willing to accuse or shame other of anything as it would land them into ridicule and accusations too. So I hope that would be the plot twist in this horrible scenario.
 
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