[eesmith]

As an example of the problem, see the "Issues and criticism" of the related topic "Link prefetching" in Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_prefetching#Issues_and_cr... .

[icebraining]

Almost all of those problems only apply to in-browser prefetchers, which reuse the user's session and connection.

[eesmith]

Point taken. Thanks for the correction.