Why isn't page compression (a la Opera Turbo) a standard?

[ean5533]

No thanks. I'd prefer my browsing history not being stored in yet another place, in yet another party's hands.

What exactly are you saying "no thanks" to? The idea I'm discussing would eliminate the middle man from Opera's model. There would be no other party.

Chrome/Chromium have pre-fetching enabled by default. No thank you.

As mentioned by someone else, pre-fetching is a completely different topic and really has nothing to do with what we're talking about.

[Paqman]

Chrome/Chromium have pre-fetching enabled by default. No thank you.

Only DNS pre-fetching AFAIK. How could that possibly be a bad thing? You can use any DNS you like, including one with ultra-paranoid privacy rules.