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		CGamesPlay 61 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article ... Disabling cache and then complaining that the bandwidth usage never stops increasing is certainly a take, but I'm not sure you can meaningfully draw any conclusions from it.

y0eswddl 61 days ago [–]

right, because most people have already visited most sites and continually visit them frequently enough that cache never goes stale.

CGamesPlay 61 days ago | [–]

Except, this wasn't a "cold start" test. It was a "leave the page open and watch subsequent requests" test. Cache absolutely applies here.

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