The discussion revolves around whether the Internet experience is unique for each user when multiple users access it through the same connection. It explores aspects of data storage, privacy, and the implications of shared internet connections, touching on both technical and conceptual elements.
Participants express both agreement and disagreement on various points, particularly regarding the implications of shared connections and the technical nuances involved. The discussion remains unresolved with multiple competing views on the extent of privacy and data sharing.
Limitations include assumptions about user knowledge of technical details, the impact of specific network configurations, and the varying degrees of privacy based on different scenarios.
chroot said:Yes, that's correct, unless the two computers communicate directly with each other in some fashion (this is not common).
- Warren
junglebeast said:For the most part yes, but I don't believe that's not entirely correct. Some exceptions would be NAT and server-side caching, not to mention reduced bandwidth due to both computers being active, or active throttling form your ISP due to traffic patterns they don't like.
Yes, the two computers would have to be networked together and allowed to access each other's information in order to share the information off of each other's computer.Gear300 said:I'm not too literate about this, but all this is if you're networked with the computer on a more direct level than the internet, right?
Gear300 said:I'm not too literate about this, but all this is if you're networked with the computer on a more direct level than the internet, right?
Yes, the two computers would have to be networked together and allowed to access each other's information in order to share the information off of each other's computer.
For instance, when my daughter comes over and she connects her laptop to my ethernet cable and connects to my internet connection, she has zero access to any information on my computer. She cannot see where I've been, she has no access to my browsing history, nor my passwords, nothing.
Unless, that "someone else" knows how to view the logs on the router configuration page (not hard to do), or if, for some odd reason or another, you shared an online account from a service that would keep records of this; Google is the main one I'm thinking of, X-Marks would have that possibility, too.junglebeast said:If you are worried about someone else in your house discovering that you've been looking at porn, for example, this is not something you need to worry about unless they get into your computer.