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There are many cases where internet usage (both hosting and consuer connections) is charged by the number of bytes transferred. Prefetch is a good way to inflate bytes transferred and thus, ISP profits.
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That's also why you can disable the feature."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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Except google and firefox cost me nothing.Originally posted by Alex
google is the new microsoft, with all this restriction to other browsers other than the one they choose.
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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Should be the other way around: disabled by default.Originally posted by Asher
That's also why you can disable the feature.
Neither do IE and MSN search.Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Except google and firefox cost me nothing.Concrete, Abstract, or Squoingy?
"I don't believe in giving scripting languages because the only additional power they give users is the power to create bugs." - Mike Breitkreutz, FiraxisComment
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So should loading images from sites other than the one you're on (linked images), by this logic.Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
Should be the other way around: disabled by default."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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Well that would solve everyone's leeching problems. It would prevent people dropping NSFW images into forum threads. Images can still be linked to without inlining them, hopefully with a handy description of what is going to be loaded.
The main difference is that images are usually going to be appropriate to the place that they're found. Until Google is bomb-proof, that isn't guaranteed that that will be the case for search results.Concrete, Abstract, or Squoingy?
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