Re:Google Makes Web Pages Load Instantly
by drivebyacct2 on Sunday June 19, 2011 @02:10AM
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It's not rendering it (I would image at least), I don't see this as a security concern, do you?
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Re:Google Makes Web Pages Load Instantly
by dangrossman on Sunday June 19, 2011 @02:15AM
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Actually, it is rendering it, in a hidden tab. As far as the site will know, you visited. Last login times get updated, web stats record hits, stuff gets marked as read, etc.
Re:Google Makes Web Pages Load Instantly
by drivebyacct2 on Sunday June 19, 2011 @02:26AM
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So scripts execute too. Hm, that is a bit surprising. Well, I trust Chrome so much that I don't block scripts and I go to any site that pops up as a google search without any hesitation so I suppose I don't mind.
I see this as annoying when I'm reviewing my server logs.
I could care little about privacy concern, but I would rather wait a couple of seconds than waste bandwidth downloading pages that I would most likely never look at. Also from web developer point of view, I would like to see how any given site loads under standard use case anyway.
Google is only preloading the top result when it is confident the top result is what you are looking for. If Google does a good enough job then only a small % of preloads will go unviewed.