Ready to feel bad about your internet habbits?

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The discussion centers around users discovering how to check their browsing history and visit statistics in Firefox, specifically through the View Page Info and Security options. Participants express surprise at their visit counts, with one noting 12,000 visits and another mentioning over 64,000 posts on forums. There is a mix of humor and disbelief regarding the time spent online, with some users sharing their experiences of paying for forum memberships, often joking about the absurdity of their long-term engagement. The conversation also touches on the limitations of this feature in Google Chrome and the varying methods of tracking internet habits, including the mention of a third-party tool, RescueTime. Overall, the thread highlights the community's engagement with online platforms and the humorous acknowledgment of their internet usage.
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So I just caught up with the 21st century and figured this out.

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Just right click on some non-linked area of your browser, go to View Page Info, and go to Security... and sadface :(

This is on firefox at least.
 
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Why do you expect encryption? You're not buying viagra from physicsforums are you?
 
I don't need to worry about any of that. I don't use Mozilla.
 
Oh my god, wake up people. 12,000 visits!
 
Yeah but look:

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You got an award for it!

-DaveKA
 
dkotschessaa said:
You got an award for it!
No that's even worse. It only means that he is so addicted, he even pays for PF although it's completely free. Very sad indeed.
 
humanino said:
No that's even worse. It only means that he is so addicted, he even pays for PF although it's completely free. Very sad indeed.

I paid them like $2 10 years ago. They just haven't noticed and I kept the award.
 
OH, I thought that was some sort of thing you get after X number of posts. You're right. That's worse. LOL But I've done the same on other forums.
 
Pengwuino said:
I paid them like $2 10 years ago. They just haven't noticed and I kept the award.
 
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1,038 for me. Thanks for showing me this, I'll go check the other webpages I go to regularly.

Nothing compares to what you have. But I do have a newer computer. It's only a few years old.

But I have a pretty epic number of YouTube video views: 277,989
 
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This does not work on Google Chrome.
 
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Char. Limit said:
This does not work on Google Chrome.

Oh the tragedy! Now we will never know how much time we have wasted! :D
 
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Char. Limit said:
This does not work on Google Chrome.
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Pengwuino said:
Oh my god, wake up people. 12,000 visits!

I have only about 6400 on this computer, in my office. But that's only since the last week of August, because that's when I got this computer. Extrapolating to my computer at home, which I got in August 2008, I'm guessing about 45000 there. Let's see what I find when I get home...
 
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For me it says I've never visited this site before.
How does it count it?
 
  • #16
Mine shows the I've never been here before today.
 
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I have over 14,000 posts, that doesn't count posts in P&WA & GD, that's at least an additional 50,000 posts. So, let's say 64,000 posts. Let's say I spend at least 30 minutes at the forum for every post. Over 7 years...

Borek, isn't there a way to see all posts made that count or not?
 
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Evo said:
I have over 14,000 posts, that doesn't count posts in P&WA & GD, that's at least an additional 50,000 posts. So, let's say 64,000 posts. Let's say I spend at least 30 minutes at the forum for every post. Over 7 years...

Borek, isn't there a way to see all posts made that count or not?

[PLAIN]http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff286/nfforums/wuut.png. Wow

That can't be health.

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dlgoff said:
Mine shows the I've never been here before today.

Don's our eternal noobie.
 
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jtbell said:
Extrapolating to my computer at home, which I got in August 2008, I'm guessing about 45000 there.

Only about 11000. I wonder how Firefox counts "visits." Or maybe it's a relatively new feature, say within the last year or so?
 
  • #21
There's another way to track Internet habits. ;)

It's at http://www.rescuetime.com.

Anyways, I prefer using it to track visits now that I use Chrome (firefox keeps crashing ad infinitum on me)
 
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Whaaat, I paid $10 about 10 years ago and all I got was this creepy avatar.
 

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