From dafe0ccec8c8f6ea8b40d68b70e5b03d206d8af9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Raymond Hill Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 13:45:29 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Updated About the required permissions (markdown) --- About-the-required-permissions.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/About-the-required-permissions.md b/About-the-required-permissions.md index 359a3a9..70d2b06 100644 --- a/About-the-required-permissions.md +++ b/About-the-required-permissions.md @@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ If _prefetching_ had been disabled by default, this new permission would not be ![c](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/585534/7914528/924b9314-0845-11e5-8012-f67e4b1814cd.png) +Also, the benefits of _prefetching_ are probably marginal, and in the context of a blocker, the benefits could be negative, since a lot of useless connections would be made, just to be discarded after the browser find out the requests won't be made anyway. So do not fall for the _"lost of major performance boost"_ claim I read elsewhere, this is just an silly and baseless claim. + See code: - [chrome.privacy.network](https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/commit/e65c2939757f09db646d277b82da8690aaf3adbc)