[bduerst]

Link prefetching and rendering isn't unique to AMP - it was even added by W3C to be part of the HTML5 standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_prefetching#Prefetching_i...

Even Internet Explorer will prefetch and render pages.

[dfabulich]

Yes, but if you use that feature, the prefetched sites will fingerprint you and track you.

[bduerst]

Right, but to GP's point their complaint isn't with AMP but with the current W3C internet standards as a whole.

[andrekandre]

now that is pretty dangerous if i may say so... what happens when a search result for something totally innocuous turns up shady webpages that you never click on but get pre-loaded and cached by your browser?