| ▲ | Retric 2 days ago | |
Preloading links is often avoided because it creates a wide range of issues. Using up newspapers free stories a month on articles users never see etc. Speed just isn’t that useful by comparison. Incompetence is obviously still a possibility, but the likely intent overcoming such issues is to make X seem to generate more traffic and thus appear to be more relevant. | ||
| ▲ | Ajedi32 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
Even so, Chrome has preloading turned on by default with an option for "extended preloading" which is even more aggressive. There may be some downsides, but I don't think what X is doing here is unreasonable. Speed makes a huge difference in UX. | ||
| ▲ | stillatit 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
>Using up newspapers free stories a month on articles users never see etc Webviews are pretty quarantined from the main safari app. I don't think cookies persist, so I don't think this would be an issue. | ||
| ▲ | sd9 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
I hadn't considered this. | ||