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Originally Posted by Ragnar | It's not a huge debate. It's not even a debate. As you can see from that post, several users have explained in detail that the website (such as eBay or Amazon) can only see the MAC address of the last hop, which is far from being you.
Think of internet traffic as a street, like driving from your house to eBay's headquarters, to pick up a copy of the website (printed out). Just as an example. You get in your car at your house. Your house has a number (the MAC address), each street that you take is a "hop". To get from your house to eBay's headquarters, you need to drive through 20 different streets. Each street can only see the name of the street that connects to it and so can the eBay headquarters. They can only see the name of the street that connects to them. Simply by looking at your car when you get there, eBay doesn't know which streets you've been driving through, much less what your house number is.
If someone comes to visit you at your house, can you see what their home house number is, just by looking at their car? No. You don't know what their house number is unless you've been to their house ..so eBay would need to come into your house and check your computer's MAC address locally, actually sitting at your machine.
However, there will always be people claiming the contrary, just like some people still claim that the world is flat.
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