iMac browser history

[Stormi12]

Hi all!

My husband is up to something on our shared computer - I just don’t know what! Every time he’s in the computer room and I walk in, he hides the screen and even goes so far as to push me out of the room with his body in a distracting way (kind of like how a border collie herds)

Today I saw him on the screen shirtless (lol I don’t know why with his dad bod and all) and he said it was some stupid pop up. I don’t believe him.

I know he’s not physically running around because I’m with him all day on summer holidays but maybe he’s been watching porn? And is embarrassed?

The browser history on the iMac doesn’t appear to be cleared but I am wondering if there is a way to see what he has been up to?

Any help would be appreciated!

Isn't there a History tab on your top bar?

Like this

www.wikihow.com/View-Your-Browser-History-on-a-Mac

I have checked it like the pp have suggested and I get nothing!

It doesn’t appear as though anything has been deleted either. Although I only see items for the day so it’s as if he’s deleting right after he uses it. But then normal sites show up so maybe he’s only deleting individual entries?

He may be deleting only the last hour after looking at it, there is an option for this, then other sites would show up from a bit earlier or maybe switching on private browsing?

Was he on the screen shirtless in a photo or looking at the computer shirtless, it is very hot though

He might be.You can certainly spy and find out what he's up to but do you want to? How would you feel if you found out he was monitoring you? I bet if you posted about it on MN he'd be called emotionally abusive, controlling and people would ask if you had somewhere safe you could go.

You could look at router logs and match this to the history. If there's a discrepancy then he's deleting individual entries and you can find out what they are. You can look at real time browsing via the router. All of this might not work if he uses a VPN.

You can get 'employee monitoring' type software but might notice this.

You can get key logging software.

If he has an ounce of tech-nous he'd be using an incognito window if he is looking at porn or similar.

Is he messaging someone and sending them pictures?
If he was watching porn wouldn't he seem "excited"

I haven’t been able to find what I am looking for.

How would you bring this up with your husband? It’s really bothering me.

It might be innocent, if I am looking at something on the computer I hate anyone peering over my shoulder trying to look at what I am looking at, its a bit like reading a newspaper over someones shoulder, depends if it has just happened recently or if it has always been like this.

Also I would hate to share a computer with DH as I like my own space.

Ask him what he is doing!

In all fairness, if he's trying to cover what he's up to online he won't be clearing his history but will be using safe/incognito/stealth mode on his browser, which doesn't record the history in the first place.

If there are no history entries for times when you positively know that he was online, that may be what he's doing.

Having said that, if you're really smart and getting up to funny stuff on the internet, you'll simultaneously have a regular window open and leave an innocuous trace of boring eBay, Facebook and BBC stuff while keeping the other stuff stealth.

You technically could find out by installing a packet sniffer or a key logger or any of that good stuff. Personally, I'd dump a partner who went to such lengths to spy on my online antics on the spot. Don't go there.

Source: topic sort of vaguely related to what I do for a living.

Just ask him
"So how is the porn nowadays? Still 'bum chica pow wow (the song sound)' or have they modernised a bit?"