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tggzzz:
In the screenshot below there are a few oddities. I am the only member looking at that thread, and there are 10 guests looking at it. 1:10 surprises me, but is probably transient :)
But what is a "hidden" viewer?
I expect the answer is obvious, so simply point me to it :)
magic:
BB forums have an option to hide your username from those lists.
But I went through all those goddamn preferences and can't find it :-//
magic:
I was wondering what kind of paranoid people use it but this explanation makes perfect sense :)
golden_labels:
--- Quote from: tggzzz on August 08, 2020, 08:03:16 am ---1:10 surprises me, but is probably transient :)
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Each client that doesn’t store cookies is being counted separately with each requests it makes. That mostly includes web crawlers and in a thread of 1.3k pages it is likely to have many of them at the same time.
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