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Under the hood

How a video gets from your phone to anywhere — in a blink.

  1. 01Capture
  2. 02Caption
  3. 03Encode
  4. 04Edge
  5. 05Package
  6. 06Deliver
  7. 07Play

Why video is the hardest thing on the internet, the full pipeline, how the internet and Fastly’s edge came to be, and how problem reports work — see the technical deep-dive →

What we seeabout you, right now
Where…Your rough location & internet provider — from your address, no permission asked.
Device…
Connection…How you shook hands tells a real browser apart from a bot.
Browser…Independent details your browser hands every page — together, a signature that recognizes you even after you clear cookies.
Visit…One anonymous first-party cookie tells returning humans from bots. It's a signed random id — not your name, never sold, gone if you clear cookies.

The browser signature above is worked out here, in your browser — we never send or store it. The basic connection facts (which every site you visit can see) we keep only as anonymous counts, never sold or shared. Most sites take all of this quietly and don’t tell you. (The EFF’s free Cover Your Tracks test can show exactly how unique yours is.)

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