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As far as I know this only preloads HTML. For the majority of sites, that's not going to cause a huge increase in data use. Most page's html is only a couple of
by esperent 6y ago
As far as I know this only preloads HTML. For the majority of sites, that's not going to cause a huge increase in data use. Most page's html is only a couple of kb.
- onion2k 6y agoTaking this story on HN as an example, the HTML is about 20kb right now. If you prefetched every story on the front page that would be 600kb. And if you read HN as much as I doing that could be gigabytes every day.
- esperent 6y agoFrom my understanding that's not how this tool works (admittedly it's a while since I examined it deeply). It waits for a mouse hover over a link and then preloads that link only. Unless it's been terribly abused, there's no way it should preload all the links on a page.
- porker 6y agoYou are correct about how it works.