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by HWR_14 817 days ago
You would still get the resources loading. So both the extra usage of a metered/limited bandwidth and the tracking.
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Prefetching is a low-priority operation in general, so you can't rely on the fact that prefetching happens earlier than the page loading (the diagram is quite misleading in this aspect). Therefore one alternative might be to start loading prefetched but blocked resources but arbitrarily delay it until the page loading finishes, at which time blocked connections get closed.