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Is there a privacy vulnerability with prefetching? I can imagine timing it and making inferences about whether it's been cached and therefore previously visited.


Possibly true, but I'm pretty sure you can already do that with something like <img onload="someJavascript()">


I don't see how you would be able to tell how long it takes to load- unless you control the site it's prefetching, in which case you should be able to tell if they've been there before anyway.




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