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Re:Google launches new “portal” HTML element by eridius on Friday May 10, 2019 @02:02PM (#19880485)
Link prefetch/preload puts the loading under the control of the browser. The user can't see whether it loads or not, so the browser can make intelligent decisions about when to load it or whether to even load it at all.

Portals are user-visible, so the browser can't defer the load.

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Re:Google launches new “portal” HTML element by rahuldottech on Friday May 10, 2019 @02:10PM (#19880571)
> Link prefetch/preload puts the loading under the control of the browser

This is a good thing. Many are on metered connections and have data caps.

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