” … While it is in theory an interesting concept to speed things up for the user, critics argue that it is creating unnecessary overhead and that it has privacy implications. Resources that are prefetched but not accessed are wasted for instance as they remain unused. As far as privacy is concerned, the server the information are retrieved from notices the user’s connection even if it is caused by the automated process. …
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“Firefox users can disable this prefetch feature the following way: …”
Source: Ghacks.net
Address : Firefox prefetching: what you need to know
Curious to see what is actually returned in the response from any of these pre-fetches.
If it’s merely a look-up to make faster connections later, once you actually request information, it won’t impact me (other than slow down my already overused WiFi network).
If this actually interacts with the web-server, however, it may impact web analytics (which is my current area of employment).