Caching would make things slower, consume more bandwidth and power why exactly? Also, your argument assumes everyone is browsing on a phone, and with a "plan".

Caching would make things slower, consume more bandwidth and power why exactly? Also, your argument assumes everyone is browsing on a phone, and with a "plan". Is there no other way to access the web these days? I think simply disabling JS spares a lot more battery. Hell, with noScript you can block font manipulation.