"Data Reduction" sometimes removes pictures |
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Issue descriptionWhen browsing with poor connectivity with "data reduction" feature enabled, pictures are sometimes not loaded and replaced with placeholders. I guess this is a way to reduce how much data is exchanged, but when consulting web comics (that are mostly pictures), this introduce more latency for the user as they have to tap on the infobar to reload with "data reduction" disabled. This could lead to user effectively disabling the "data reduction" feature completely (personally, I am seriously considering disabling the feature as it does not help much when network condition are good anyway as my connection is not metered).
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Jul 27
Thanks for the comment. This is one of the optimizations we use to save data and improve load times when a page would otherwise load very slowly. Two notes: 1) Chrome has logic to remember that a user chose "show original" and will automatically disable the feature for the session, for the site, or altogether if it appears that that is what the user wants. 2) We are actively developing better optimizations and better targeting of our optimizations, so that, hopefully, users will choose to see the original version of the page less often. (That number is already very low, btw.) |
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Comment 1 by tedc...@chromium.org
, Jul 25Components: Internals>Network>DataProxy