> What? What about the vast majority of links that appear in-line, in text (think Wikipedia). What about the increased bandwidth usage for pre-loaded pages I don't intend to visit? What about the obvious tracking issues?
These already exist. You can do <link> prefetch now ...
But I THINK they are doing preload now as well so the DOM can be pre-cached.
I mean you could do it on your own site but most people try to make sites FASTER not slower.
I still don't grok the main advantages of Portals though.
This is probably done to hurt social media analytics companies. Without these numbers being known the only company that knows them is Facebook which means they can sell them...
They had the daemon running as root and I could read everything on the box.
Anyway. I sent them an email to webmaster and to a few PMs I new but heard nothing back.
About a week later I got a REALLY nasty legal as apparently they thought my email was an attempt to extort them and not just a nice guy trying to point out the problem.
I think they thought I downloaded source code ...
The PMs I emailed had to step in and vouch for me but I think that without their help I would have ended up with a really shitty lawsuit.
It uses pdf.js for the rendering of the PDFs and extracting the metadata (including the fields discussed in this article)..
I have to manage a ton of PDFs for my work / research. Mostly textbooks and compsci whitepapers) and and before working on Polar I was really struggling to manage all the data.