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AMP needs to either be drastically rethought or killed. Nothing more annoying for me on my iPhone than clicking a link and it's AMP - as it means missing featur

AMP needs to either be drastically rethought or killed. Nothing more annoying for me on my iPhone than clicking a link and it's AMP - as it means missing features, broken scrolling, masked URL and worst of all, in page search is totally broken on the iPhone! So annoying that there is no way to disable it - if Google persist in pushing it then it might push me to try alternatives!

mort96 9y ago
Google's broken AMP crap is what made me switch to duckduckgo on iOS.
- ihsw2 9y ago
  It seems to me that only iOS users are complaining -- as an Android user I am blown away by how readable AMP pages are. I can just get to the page, read it, and then leave. There's no futzing around with: * long scrolling down "the fold" filled with clickbait in-site links or other unrelated nonsense * interstitial and overlay ads * crappy non-mobile interfaces * "Shared" buttons stickied to the bottom or top of the viewframe There's still ads around the page (in-content ads between paragraphs and "you may like" or "recommended" ads at the bottom of the page) and navigational elements to browse outside of the AMP page. It's the mobile content consumption experience as it should be.
  - protomyth 9y ago
    Yes, the people who don't own a phone OS by Google are complaining about Google's AMP. That is part of the problem.
makecheck 9y ago
A way to disable it while seeing Google results is to start from DuckDuckGo but add "g!". This goes through a different Google interface that always returns normal links.
- grzm 9y ago
  I believe you mean "!g". DuckDuckGo "macros" start with bang. https://duckduckgo.com/bang https://duckduckgo.com/bang
  - makecheck 9y ago
    They both work.
    - grzm 9y ago
      Indeed they do! Thanks for the pointer. Looking a bit deeper, it looks like that's a special case for g! rather than something that works across all DuckDuckGo bangs.

mort96 9y ago

Google's broken AMP crap is what made me switch to duckduckgo on iOS.

ihsw2 9y ago
It seems to me that only iOS users are complaining -- as an Android user I am blown away by how readable AMP pages are. I can just get to the page, read it, and then leave. There's no futzing around with: * long scrolling down "the fold" filled with clickbait in-site links or other unrelated nonsense * interstitial and overlay ads * crappy non-mobile interfaces * "Shared" buttons stickied to the bottom or top of the viewframe There's still ads around the page (in-content ads between paragraphs and "you may like" or "recommended" ads at the bottom of the page) and navigational elements to browse outside of the AMP page. It's the mobile content consumption experience as it should be.
- protomyth 9y ago
  Yes, the people who don't own a phone OS by Google are complaining about Google's AMP. That is part of the problem.

makecheck 9y ago

A way to disable it while seeing Google results is to start from DuckDuckGo but add "g!". This goes through a different Google interface that always returns normal links.

grzm 9y ago
I believe you mean "!g". DuckDuckGo "macros" start with bang. https://duckduckgo.com/bang https://duckduckgo.com/bang
- makecheck 9y ago
  They both work.
  - grzm 9y ago
    Indeed they do! Thanks for the pointer. Looking a bit deeper, it looks like that's a special case for g! rather than something that works across all DuckDuckGo bangs.