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Chrome's Lite Pages Speed Up HTTPS Webpages on Slow Connections (venturebeat.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Frustrated by web pages that never seem to load properly? Well, Google hopes to make them a thing of the past. Today, the company announced that Chrome on Android's Data Saver, a feature that automatically improves page loading using "built-in optimizations" and dedicated servers -- speeding them up by a factor of two and reducing data usage by up to 90 percent -- now supports encrypted HTTPS webpages. Previously, it only worked with unencrypted HTTP content. The latest stable version of Chrome on Android indicates in the URL bar when a lightweight version of a web page -- a Lite page -- is being displayed. Tapping the indicator shows additional information and provides an option to load the original version of the page. Google says that Chrome will automatically disable Lite pages on a per-site basis when it detects that "users frequently opt to load the original page."
No.
They have a database of commonly accessed content that they have pre-compressed on their own servers, such as Javascript frameworks. When the browser notices it needs to load one, it instead loads from the Google server or uses a locally cached copy. This happens even if the site said "load my copy", which usually means that the browser should re-download it no matter what.
Occasionally this breaks things because some sites modify their local copies, hence the need for the override.
This does not require any data about your browsing habits to be sent to Google, except in cases where you opt-in to sending it when you click on the override. It is explicitly opt-in, turned off by default.
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While I mostly agree with you, you have made a small error in your logic. It's not your browser. It's a free browser that you downloaded from Google that has been coded to do what they want it to do.
I despise Google (for most things) but there is an element of entitlement in you demanding that software, you paid nothing for, behave in a manner you dictate. If you had paid for the software, then you'd have an argument (of sorts). But, you haven't. You're placing demands on something you have vested no money in. There's an old saying "Beggars can't be choosers".
Get a different browser.. One that conforms to your desire. How many stories, about Google siphoning up huge amounts of personal data and related information, do we have to have before you people ditch Chrome?
You are not Google's customer. You are Google's PRODUCT and you are being sold as such. This isn't news. This has been going on for at least a decade.