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Re:Reactive prefetch on Google Search: 100-150ms speedup by ksk on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @07:05PM (#8726718)
Disabling all the JS crap that modern sites layer on top of content - reduces memory and CPU usage. I paid for the memory and CPU, and I don't want several hundreds of MBs spent caching JS interpreter/optimizer data structures and analytics scripts wasting my CPU compute power - decreasing the battery life of my device.

While you may be right that the privacy angle is something that few users care about, there are real tangible benefits to disabling some of this stuff.

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Re:Reactive prefetch on Google Search: 100-150ms speedup by acdha on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @09:11PM (#8727301)
a) <a ping> doesn't involve JavaScript and actually saves battery power by reducing the amount of time where the network is active without being fully loaded

b) It's true that you paid for the device but Google pays for the service – the deal is that they pay for everything by showing you ads. If you disagree with that you're welcome to use or start a competitor but it's absurdly entitled to think that you have any grounds to demand that they change their business model.

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Re:Reactive prefetch on Google Search: 100-150ms speedup by ksk on Wednesday December 10, 2014 @05:42PM (#8732183)
a) Its true that it doesn't involve JS but not doing the ping itself would save the battery life even further.

b) Don't put words in other peoples mouths. How incredibly rude of you. I have not demanded that they change anything. My post makes no mention of any "business model".

My computer as of today allows me some control over the code that runs on the CPU and the data that gets transferred over the network. I'd like to exercise that option if and when I wish to. You're free to do whatever you want.

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Re:Reactive prefetch on Google Search: 100-150ms speedup by magicalist on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @07:21PM (#8726794)
That's fine but not especially relevant to the GP's point. The Google redirect and <a ping> don't require JavaScript.
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Re:Reactive prefetch on Google Search: 100-150ms speedup by ksk on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @07:28PM (#8726827)
Ah okay, I didn't know that. I thought that Google returned direct links when you disabled JS.
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Re:Reactive prefetch on Google Search: 100-150ms speedup by magicalist on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @07:56PM (#8726970)
Yeah, it appears that they both add and remove the direct links in JS, so with JS disabled you never see the direct link (at least, that's what I get when I disable javascript).
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