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

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Alienous

Member
Embarassment, but nothing I couldn't Keyser Söze my way through - nothing that could be held over me if I didn't allow it.
 

QisTopTier

XisBannedTier
Pretty sure they could pick something to toss me in jail at some point in my almost 20 years of browsing the net I've seen too much horrible shit out of just wanting to educate myself and know the horrors of the world.
 

Moose Biscuits

It would be extreamly painful...
Real talk:

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Probably preferable to seeing my family and friends reactions before (probably) being arrested.
 

highrider

Banned
Nothing. No shame in my game, and I'm assuming porn is the big one for most, which isn't my thing. Imagination is the better mastubatory aid imo.
 

QisTopTier

XisBannedTier
Oh boy.

Is hentai illegal? If not, then I'm good.
Do you get off to lolicon garbage? If the answer is no then you are mostly safe.


Though with the high amount of rape themes in hentai that could probably be used to spin and pin you for at least something. Not to mention if you are reading it online you are essitentlly pirating most of the time
 

SolVanderlyn

Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
Real talk for a second, the social ramifications of this really intrigue me. If everyone's browser history was public knowledge, how much would their browsing habits change? Would what's seen as acceptable or unacceptable change? Something considered depraved when someone does it behind closed doors may lose notoriety when it's revealed that the majority of people do the same thing. It would either upset or balance our moral compass. Probably divide people into two camps - people who'd rather not get caught searching for embarrassing or illegal stuff, and people who use "everyone does it" as justification to keep doing it.
 

xRaizen

Member
Let's see, back in the early 00's as a kid I'd use Kazaa and LimeWire so that would easily land me in jail.

Then I started going onto Gaia Online for quite some years. Mix some 4chan in with that, which would probably have linked me to various illegal images that I saw with no intention of seeing them.

2006 - 2011 were some dark internet years.
 

Dipper145

Member
I guess the answer depends on if everyone else's browsing history is also available for everyone else to see.

If it's just mine for whatever reason, probably a lot of shame and fame?

Hopefully leverage the shame and fame to loads of money.

Then probably swim in pool filled with cash.
 

akira28

Member
best case scenario, I make some new friends. worst case, I have to take a vacation for a little while. to handle some business.
 

Anteater

Member
i'd embrace it and let the world be known of my fetishes, then no one will actually give a shit

so in other words it doesn't matter
 

TaterTots

Banned
From my whole life? First time I sat down in front of a keyboard that had internet I looked for shit I didn't know was illegal. I was like 11 or 12. If that is held against me.....shit. Fucking put me down.
 

Creepy

Member
I go to 3 websites,

NeoGAF for "internet"
Amazon for buying stuff
eBay for buying stuff they didn't have on amazon

I'd be fine

..I keep all my weird shit in my compound.
 

Tagyhag

Member
I pirated music when I was in middle school so no idea how that would affect me.

Other than that, guess everyone could see that I watch porn? Shocking. :p
 

styl3s

Member
all those people saying jail is a little worrying.
If it's from pirating it's not worrying at all considering a metric shit ton of people who were younger at the height of irc/napster/kazaa etc. pirated stuff and if that would land people in jail or fined i might or might not be fined/put in jail but other than that possibly effecting my life (not saying i did pirate in my youth) i don't care if the history was made public but nothing would come out that i am embarrassed about. Not that i condone piracy but it's not like they were looking child porn or snuff films (or at least i hope not)

That being said i have nothing to hide but i do hope whoever did go through my history enjoys looking at 20 years of dick pics/naked men and hardcore gay porn and about 8-10 years worth of puppy pictures, puppies doing goofy things, puppies dressed up in goofy outfits etc.
 

Fou-Lu

Member
I looked up A LOT of fucked up shit in my early teens. Among my friends it was a badge of honour at the time to have sat through more messed up stuff. If that history is counted against me now I might be joining the rest of GAF in jail.

"He wasted how much time on maplestory?!"

Also this.
 
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