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Does anyone know if Google ended up changing their behavior on this? I'm struggling to see why this is a legitimate design decision on their part - how is down
by x1798DE 11y ago
Does anyone know if Google ended up changing their behavior on this?
I'm struggling to see why this is a legitimate design decision on their part - how is downloading a new copy every hour different from maintaining a persistent cache wherever they are storing it after download?
- _gopz 11y ago> Since these URLs are private, Google does not want to store them anywhere permanently in the Google servers.
- chipperyman573 11y agoGoogle hasn't exactly been known to put users' privacy in front of gaining more information about them, though...
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- aliakhtar 11y agoThey should've at least implemented lazy loading, i.e only fetch the thumbs the user is looking at.
- x1798DE 11y agoYeah, I read that part, I just don't understand it. They are obviously storing the contents of the image somewhere (in memory?) for an hour, otherwise there's no point prefetching it in the first place. At the end of that hour, they download it again. If the image isn't different, they would be better off not throwing away the old copy.