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    How exactly does the "Predict network actions to improve page load performance" option works?

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    • srakax
      srakax last edited by

      And what I'm especially interested in is does it use Google in any way? I especially changed my default search engine to DDG to not use Google. But I wondered about this option, what network actions does it use?

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      • lando242
        lando242 last edited by

        It does not use google. The gist of it (if I understand it correctly) is that it follows the links on the webpage you are currently on and pre-loads them. So if you are on a news site's home page it will try and load some of the articles on that page so, if you click on one, it loads faster.

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        • browzer1
          browzer1 last edited by

          lando, the news web sites that I frequent have literally dozens and dozens of links.

          How does it know what links to load?

          That sounds like a ridiculous waste of bandwidth.

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          • blackbird71
            blackbird71 last edited by

            Given that it says "predict network actions", it seems likely to me that there's more to it than just burning bandwidth to open a list of links.

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