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setsunatenshi on 19 October 2018
SpokenTruth said:
setsunatenshi said:

how would you measure that? by self reporting?

 

"I swear, I totally didn't spend 2 hours on youPr0n yesterday" :D

 

Once the data is loaded, no one can tell how long of your personal time you spend looking at whatever website. It has to be measured by volume of data being transfered

All that gets logged by the places you visit and other connection/session state tracking systems.

so if you open your browser and create 2 separate tabs, one idling on some youtube video, the other on facebook, where do you sum up your time of internet usage?

how about those maniacs that leave chrome open with approximately 85 tabs?



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SvennoJ on 19 October 2018

Confirmed Sony has the most inefficient patch system :p
Anyway not surprising with PS Vue, PS Now, Spotify, movie and game downloads. Or is it just downloads? It says PS download 2.7%.

In our house hold streaming takes up most of the bandwidth as in most others I assume. Netflix and You tube are on every day. This month we're already up to 304 GB, got to conserve soon as we're capped at 500 a month. We're not even streaming 4K, just regular 1080p and lower. There were quite a few big patches this month. See, it's Sony's fault after all.



JRPGfan on 19 October 2018

digital games stores... and online play.... I guess Sony is doing alright on that front.



setsunatenshi on 19 October 2018
SpokenTruth said:
setsunatenshi said:

so if you open your browser and create 2 separate tabs, one idling on some youtube video, the other on facebook, where do you sum up your time of internet usage?

how about those maniacs that leave chrome open with approximately 85 tabs?

Yes, that all gets tracked.  When you access a web page, you create an open session with time stamps.  If you click away from that page, open a new page in the same window/tab or close your tab/window/browser, the time stamps are updated and/or your session closes.  So multiple open web sites will get counted.  They don't differentiate which pages you have in focus and which you have in the background.

tracked by whom exactly?



setsunatenshi on 19 October 2018
SpokenTruth said:
setsunatenshi said:

tracked by whom exactly?

The web sites themselves, analytics (such as Google), ISPs, back haul carries, Internet router manufacturers etc....  It's not personal information but rather generic info (browser, OS, protocols).

each website may be tracking your presence with cookies, but there's no way you can gather the metadata of which tab any random person has active at any given time. much less compile it to the degree you're able to track bulk flow of data as it was done in this case.



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ResilientFighter on 19 October 2018
Ka-pi96 said:

hmm, seems to be a bit of a misleading title. Makes it sound like 15% of internet users use Netflix or that 15% of time spent on the internet is on Netflix or something but the stats are only for mbs of data which is completely different. It would be nice if things could be labelled accurately rather than twisted to make things sound better or worse than they actually are, but with humanity the way it is there's not much chance of that ever happening

Yo is this a joke or for real?



Acevil on 19 October 2018

I wonder if that number would be if we didn't have forced install that make people go digital and updates. Honestly speaking nothing against Sony for that notion, since it is really third parties that abuse the update size and file size.



 

ironmanDX on 19 October 2018

I think that it's more surprising that Netflix has more traffic than porn.



Pemalite on 19 October 2018
Megiddo said:
Wow. How in the world is Valve/Steam not in this?

Good question.
But the stats for Steam are here anyway: https://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/

outlawauron said:
Megiddo said:
Wow. How in the world is Valve/Steam not in this?

The biggest PC games are split between other services and the China base goes through their own services. I would expect them to be very close behind.

Steam has more than twice the active users than there are Playstation 4 consoles sold though.



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setsunatenshi on 20 October 2018
SpokenTruth said:
setsunatenshi said:

each website may be tracking your presence with cookies, but there's no way you can gather the metadata of which tab any random person has active at any given time. much less compile it to the degree you're able to track bulk flow of data as it was done in this case.

And I also said the data can come from stuff like Google Analytics, ISPs, back haul carriers, backbone router manufacturers, etc...

and yet, strangely enough, we have never seen such data published anywhere...

 

i wonder why...