Comment by efortis
8 hours ago
another trick is adding speculation rules on MPA sites. so when you hover over a link the page gets prerendered. For example, my initial page takes ~80ms, but navigating to other pages take 20ms
prerender: [
{
where: { href_matches: '/*' },
eagerness: 'moderate'
}
]
That doesn't work on Safari, FF, and Brave, but you could do something like this:
https://github.com/ericfortis/mockaton/blob/main/www/src/_as...
Most adblockers/privacy extensions disable this.
uBlock Origin does it by default for instance.
Do they block <link rel=prefetch> completely?
On Brave, the workaround on that linked snippet bypasses their blocking.
Well, uBlock Origin sets network.prefetch-next=false and network.dns.disablePrefetch=true, so yes.
The reason is that browser prefetching may hit URLs that were intended to be blocked.