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Taking this story on HN as an example, the HTML is about 20kb right now. If you prefetched every story on the front page that would be 600kb.

And if you read HN as much as I doing that could be gigabytes every day.



From my understanding that's not how this tool works (admittedly it's a while since I examined it deeply). It waits for a mouse hover over a link and then preloads that link only. Unless it's been terribly abused, there's no way it should preload all the links on a page.


You are correct about how it works.




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