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by geographomics 4269 days ago
> It has weird micro-optimizations decided to ensure that Google's front-page and any Google-request with its army of 20000 privacy-invading tracking cookies should fit within one TCP-packet using American ISPs MTU packet-size, to ensure people are not inconvenienced when their privacy is being eaten away at. Which I'm sure is useful to Google, but pretty much nobody else.

Could you elaborate on this, please?

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I assume josteink is decrying the fact that header compression is used, which is a pretty ridiculous complaint.