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Can't we record the original download timings and replicate them artificially, with some noise added for privacy? Of course, with reasonable upper latency thres
by drdaeman 2y ago
Can't we record the original download timings and replicate them artificially, with some noise added for privacy? Of course, with reasonable upper latency threshold (derived from overall network performance metrics) to prevent DoS on clients.
While this won't improve load times, it can save bandwidth, improving user experience on slow connections. And most popular hand-selected library versions can get preloaded by the browser itself and listed as exceptions with zero added latency.
Also, this way the networking telemetry would gain a meaningful purpose for end users, not just developers.
- manwe150 2y agoMy understanding had been that you get a double whammy of there being too many versions of the “common” dependencies, so it is already in-effect a per-site cache (or nearly so), but that uniqueness also means a fingerprint can be established with fairly few latency tests