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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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