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Well, you're right that it requires centralization, but at least the amount of data you need to retrieve centrally is that much smaller. It would benefit the gl
by andrewstuart2 11y ago
Well, you're right that it requires centralization, but at least the amount of data you need to retrieve centrally is that much smaller. It would benefit the global infrastructure greatly if I could retrieve websites over LAN if they'd been cached by a computer there.
My wife and I visit a lot of the same sites, even see a lot of the same dynamic content (same facebook friends, etc). Surely there's some community effect that would make this a huge bandwidth win.
- nothrabannosir 11y agoCareful: this gets you dangerously close to privacy violations. You may not want certain people to know that you are fetching a piece of content. "Hmm, the profile picture for this specific friend loaded suspiciously quickly.." A similar mistake is security updates over bittorrent: a real-time list of vulnerable hosts.
- andrewstuart2 11y agoArgh. Privacy really is such a double-edged sword. You could still keep those bits off of the WAN, though. In a "privacy mode" the gateway could coordinate and throw in an average delay.