People seem to like clearing their browser cache habitually thinking that it will keep browsing smooth, akin to sending a car for a service. Some also clear cache because of paranoia: someone might view my browser history, I better not keep any. To the extent that they yearned for a feature that will automatically clear cache when they finish using it. Now, it's included as a standard in popular browsers. But don't you feel anything when you have to redownload a (lawful) page you've visited yesterday?
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Showing posts with label waste. Show all posts
Remember the dial-up-served HTML 0.x age, where pressing back button instantly brings you to previous page? Nowadays most of the content you see on the internet are actively served i.e. they are not loaded from static .html files, so sometimes we need to wait for the browser to revalidate the page before loading from cache. We are trending further away from static serving, and going further into dynamic pages, but what haven't we lost something along the way?
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