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3. If the concern is mobile bandwidth cost, simple solution is for Apple to only enable this feature for desktop Safari (not iOS). Short answer: no. A laptop c
by alwillis 4y ago
3. If the concern is mobile bandwidth cost, simple solution is for Apple to only enable this feature for desktop Safari (not iOS).
Short answer: no. A laptop could be using a metered mobile hotspot while an iPhone could be on a fast Wi-Fi network.
There’s away to indicate a user wants to save data [1]. This would tell the service to not do things like download resources in the background I may not need or use, which is what rel=prefetch does.
[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Save-Data https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Sa...
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