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# woo! have a patriotic side dish to go with that



ohhhhh and I now offically dislike google

turns out that if you search for something, it goes off and pre-fetches the top result without you asking

fucking bandwidth stealers
(I helped save b3ta! Reckless_Rik, Thu 26 Jan 2006, 21:17, archived)
# That's a feature of the browser - don't blame Google
You can turn it off, you know.
(I helped save b3ta! gfreeman is only here for the beer, Thu 26 Jan 2006, 21:24, archived)
# did you not know about that?
(I helped save b3ta! mr horrible up yours, dickface, Thu 26 Jan 2006, 21:24, archived)
# ?
You mean it opens the first result in a new window without it being clicked? Or it loads it into cache?
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Thu 26 Jan 2006, 21:26, archived)
# Prolly means the latter
www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html#prefetch
(I helped save b3ta! gfreeman is only here for the beer, Thu 26 Jan 2006, 21:28, archived)
# Ah, thank you
And yes, it appears that it's a feature of the browser, can't really blame google for that Rik, you big sillyhead.
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Thu 26 Jan 2006, 21:31, archived)
# the prefetch attribute was intended for in-site prefetching of pages, images, etc.
i.e. stuff you`ve elected to view

what if you jokingly google "child porn" and have stuff pumped down your connection? ultimately google makes its money from site referrals, and is artificially driving up traffic to sites
(I helped save b3ta! Reckless_Rik, Thu 26 Jan 2006, 21:35, archived)