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by dmak 5157 days ago
"Another aspect of concern is the implementation of server push of resources that were already cached by the browsers. Mobile applications may also not want to retrieve some resources that the server may assume they want to download. So the criticism is that preemptive server push may end up being an undesirable thing."

Why is it "preemptive"? It seems more like a nonpreemptive push, right?