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Re:The Browser Monopoly by zvrba on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @11:36AM (#20758213)
> Im gonna feel really bad breaking the QUIC / HTTP/3 news.

According to this research article [1], QUIC is unfair towards TCP and consumes more than twice its fair share of bottleneck bandwidth.

[1] [PDF] https://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2017/papers/imc17-final3...

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Re:The Browser Monopoly by csande17 on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @11:38AM (#20758229)
That's the whole point, isn't it? Google wants web sites to load more quickly without needing to reduce the size or number of resources they send. Consuming more bandwidth seems like the only way to square that circle.
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