Is there a difference legal wise and visibility wise between downloading files or just viewing them? Can your ISP or other entities see that you only browsed something or that you actually downloaded and saved something, or is it all the same?
Does your web browser send different requests when it loads a webpage vs downloading/saving specific content from it?
A page on a website is a collection of data that your browser downloads to your computer to display visually. How long the browser decides to keep this data on your computer depends on the browser.
Any browser I know of simply copies files over from cache if you try to "download" viewed files. That's the point of the cache.
Legally, the term usually given is "accessing", which bypasses the viewing vs saving discrepancy - it covers any form of data transmission where you are the recipient. Things are slightly different with copyrighted offline media, where "copying" is illegal. (caveat - I have no legal training, these are just observations)
>>4391972
And if your using google chrome then that's in never
>>4391966
the people who write these laws don't know the difference between SMS and email
to them, just having it in cache is the same as posession
Guess what, you can be safe if you stop looking at drawing of child pornography