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		efortis 5 hours ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A super fast website using Cloudflare workers Do they block <link rel=prefetch> completely? On Brave, the workaround on that linked snippet bypasses their blocking.

chmod775 47 minutes ago [–]

Well, uBlock Origin sets network.prefetch-next=false and network.dns.disablePrefetch=true, so yes.

The reason is that browser prefetching may hit URLs that were intended to be blocked.

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