Comment by chmod775

7 hours ago

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.