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Re:Google Creates 'Dedicated Placement' in Search Results fo... by bduerst on Saturday May 11, 2019 @05:38PM (#19888537)
Link prefetching and rendering isn't unique to AMP - it was even added by W3C to be part of the HTML5 standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_prefetching#Prefetching_i...

Even Internet Explorer will prefetch and render pages.

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Re:Google Creates 'Dedicated Placement' in Search Results fo... by dfabulich on Saturday May 11, 2019 @07:17PM (#19888992)
Yes, but if you use that feature, the prefetched sites will fingerprint you and track you.
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Re:Google Creates 'Dedicated Placement' in Search Results fo... by bduerst on Monday May 13, 2019 @02:04PM (#19901959)
Right, but to GP's point their complaint isn't with AMP but with the current W3C internet standards as a whole.
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Re:Google Creates 'Dedicated Placement' in Search Results fo... by andrekandre on Saturday May 11, 2019 @10:41PM (#19889791)
now that is pretty dangerous if i may say so... what happens when a search result for something totally innocuous turns up shady webpages that you never click on but get pre-loaded and cached by your browser?
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