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by thug 2635 days ago
What? As far as I know this feature is completely client-side.
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lpellis 2635 days ago
The server will know how far you scrolled in a session by what images/iframes are being downloaded.
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Forge36 2635 days ago
With server side implications. The worst case would be a website stacking 1px images vertically to detect good far your scrolled
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thug 2635 days ago
I see.. but this would only make a difference for people who disabled JS, and these people can probably also disable lazy loading.
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zamadatix 2635 days ago
Assuming lazy loading remains a flag. Chrome just removed the flag to disable hyperlink auditing and that one was even blatantly about privacy.
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Forge36 2634 days ago
It's that true of iFrames? I haven't tried to determine within a child frame if scrolled into view.
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