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If you give someone a link, as in copying and pasting it in an email or on an Excel spreadsheet, will they be able to tell the difference if it's a link I obtained from home (my home desktop) vs. mobile (when I'm out and about)?
I ask because I have to do this little project in which I'm asked to look up links when we're away from home, but after a while, I might run out of time driving aimlessly, searching for wifi hotspots.
Most of the time you cannot tell but some mobile pages might give it away. It's hard to find Hotspots in San Bernadino? (THANKS for using the location field).
Thanks Peregrine. I'll just take a chance & copy & paste the links I get from using my cell phone AT HOME as if I was out & about using my cell. I have some wifi sources I can say they came from.
My latest frustration was Barnes & Noble. They have free wifi when you're in the store, but when I went there the other day, it didn't show the usual thing to connect to their wifi & whatever wifi it was at the time was moving very slowly. It took me an hour to something that usually takes 15-20 minutes to do.
If you give someone a link, as in copying and pasting it in an email or on an Excel spreadsheet, will they be able to tell the difference if it's a link I obtained from home (my home desktop) vs. mobile (when I'm out and about)?
I ask because I have to do this little project in which I'm asked to look up links when we're away from home, but after a while, I might run out of time driving aimlessly, searching for wifi hotspots.
Your question is actually two parts.
Can you tell if a link is obtained at home or away from home?
The answer is no.
Can you tell if a link is obtained on a desktop vs mobile device?
The answer is maybe. They still can't tell where you were. But many websites can tell if you are on a mobile device or not, and may provide you a different link/url. Most often, it will start with an 'm.' So instead of www.somewebsite.com, it may be m.somewebsite.com. That would be the only indicator. But it would be the same whether you used your phone at home on your own wifi or in a public wifi spot or via your cell data service.
Chances are, the mobile version of the web site will do a browser-sniff when someone connects to it from the desktop and redirect that session to the appropriate version of the page. I wouldn't worry about it.
MattMN, that's exactly what I wanted to know! Thanks for your thorough answer!
Thanks to everyone else as well.
Everything worked out fine when I submitted what I needed to.
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