Reactive prefetch on Google Search: 100-150ms speedup

Re:Reactive prefetch on Google Search: 100-150ms speedup by quonn on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @05:02PM (#8726134)

I think the point is that tracking already is possible, but the proposed solution was technically cleaner. So there are not new privacy problems.

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Re:Reactive prefetch on Google Search: 100-150ms speedup by nly on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @05:08PM (#8726167)

There are. It means there are now N+1 instead of N things to worry about for those of us that actually do care. It signals an acceptance that this is something to be encouraged and welcomed. All behind users backs.

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Re:Reactive prefetch on Google Search: 100-150ms speedup by taf2 on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @08:19PM (#8727099)

I think your logic is flawed - a ping would/is extremely easy to disable via a brower extension- a redirect url is not

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