Is the browsing history stored by the provider?

Question

Browsers

It is interesting to know if the history of my visits / downloads is saved by the provider? How long can history be stored on the provider's servers and how often do they delete information? It's very interesting how this system works.

Answer 1

Saved. As far as I know, they are required by law to store 6 months.

Answer 2

Ours is like 6 months, Western countries, judging by reports of arrests in Thailand, several years.
You can read it by querying "SORM" and "passive sniffer" in search engines.

Answer 3

Let me tell you about what I have worked with.

It is interesting to know if the history of my visits / downloads is saved by the provider?

I believe that any sane provider collects the so-called. flow data to account for traffic ( netflow , s-flow , etc.). This data contains information about the start / end time of the "flow" (roughly speaking, "flow", "flow", "session" is set by source/destination IP addresses, protocol number (TCP, UDP, ICMP, etc), port numbers source and destination), the amount of information transferred (in bytes, in packets), etc. It is clear that from the point of view of useful (from the user's point of view) traffic, this is metadata. Accordingly, based on these data, it is impossible to say what and where you wrote on the forum, for example, you can only say whether you accessed then and then on such and such a port of such and such a server, and if so, which one ( quantitatively) traffic was consumed/generated.

How long can history be stored on the provider's servers and how often do they delete information?

Such information is collected solely for the internal needs of the provider, therefore, it is deleted as the disk fills up.
Regarding the nuances of the work of specific "black boxes" and "remote controls" related to a well-known organization, I can not say anything .

Answer 4

Yes.
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%9E%D0%A0%D0%9C
https://lurkmore.to/%D0%A1%D0%9E%D0%A0%D0 %9C