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Prefetching really shouldn't be blindly applied to everything as users may have bandwidth limited. Even though your implementation is better than browser prefet

Prefetching really shouldn't be blindly applied to everything as users may have bandwidth limited. Even though your implementation is better than browser prefetch on users it does take the choice away from the user unless individual sites make it easy for users to opt out.

dieulot 13y ago
I think that if you stop hovering fast enough and the request is cancelled, you’ll end up only sending headers, thus not affecting bandwidth that much. Not sure though. If not the case, note that it’s just HTML we’re wasting. In the grand scheme of things it seems to me it would not have that much of an impact on bandwidth usage.
- dclara 13y ago
  I think it may impact on the bandwidth usage on mobile significantly.
  - samhoggnz 13y ago
    On mobile you don't have a hover state so surely this would be less of an issue.
    - deleted 13y ago
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    - soundoflight 13y ago
      Mobile as in PC over cell network you do.