Comment by Retric
3 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.
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.
>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.
I hadn't considered this.