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Don't you feel that "Screen-Sharing" is a bit of a stretch? I don't see where I can share anything other than the current browser window's content.

This would be confusing for the client and the end user trying understand what they are agreeing to.

A more appropriate title would be something that would allude to the fact that really you are just sharing the page the user is browsing.

Am i wrong in this assumption?

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We chose screensharing over a word like "cobrowsing" because we felt that people understood more clearly exactly what was going on. It's definitely not an exact term, i.e. you can't see the whole screen, but it is screensharing in the sense that you absolutely see part of what's going on.

We'll definitely have to go back and reconsider though, if people feel like it's misleading.

Agreed. We just changed our headline from "screen sharing" to "browser-sharing".

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