On 2011-06-25, Martin Pelikan <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, it does use bandwidth. That's what bandwidth is for. And it's not > "browser decides", it's "web creator decides" and despite that it will > surely be abused, many sites (like news) might benefit from that.
It's partly "browser decides", partly "web creator decides", and also "search engine decides" and "some random site linking to some other site decides". For one side of prefetching (DNS queries), it can be educational to install dnstop, run 'dnstop -l 3 <interface>' and then press 3, then move your mouse pointer around the browser window, try it in various browsers and see how they behave. Some do serious damage to the crappy caching dns resolver in cheap consumer-grade adsl routers... > Of course, the right way to do it is blocking all the ads, flash and > javascript using a proxy and not really being concerned about idiots > thinking their website is "cooler". Hang on, didn't you just say it's "web creator decides"? :-) > And he will probably eat up more of your resources that way, > which is basically why you need a quad core for surfing the web > in Windows these days. No way.
