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This makes me miss when browsers just had “offline mode” built right in. It certainly wasn’t foolproof, but it was often enough.
by mmcclure 3y ago
This makes me miss when browsers just had “offline mode” built right in. It certainly wasn’t foolproof, but it was often enough.
- Dylan16807 3y agoThese days just trying to save an image redownloads it most of the time. Browsers cache use has really regressed.
- beagle3 3y agoMuch of it, perhaps all of it, is a result of trackers/advertisers abusing caching for tracking. We can’t have nice things.
- Dylan16807 3y agoThere is the non-default paranoid option of disabling caches entirely. But in general the mitigation only requires isolation between sites, which doesn't have too much of an impact and shouldn't affect saving at all.
- beagle3 3y agoIsolation between sites is not sufficient - collaborating sites (and everyone colllaborates with e.g. Google analytics or the hundred other tracking sites) could have an ifrane that would abuse cache. You need isolation by primary site, and i don’t remember the exact issues, but there’s some obstacles over there that need addressing (and that browsers do address, but which result in the cache-hardly-ever-used situation we are in today).
- Dylan16807 3y agoRight, that's the isolation I was thinking of. Other than jquery or google font, what does that stop from caching? Most assets only get loaded from a single site.
- xnx 3y agoChrome on Android is pretty good at this