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I have hated AMP for the web with a passion. The other day I did a google search, started reading an article, and all of a sudden, I saw a little floating alert
by atonse 8y ago
I have hated AMP for the web with a passion. The other day I did a google search, started reading an article, and all of a sudden, I saw a little floating alert at the bottom saying "signed in to google" and I was quite alarmed by it, as I hadn't realized I had clicked on an AMP link. So an article that had nothing to do with google, kept me on a google property, and caused me to log in to google. So now I'm associated with that article.
These companies desperately need to be chopped up and have severe data sharing restrictions put on them. They're much more invasive than Microsoft ever was in the 90s.
- benmarks 8y agoWould you not be "associated with that article" regardless? You clicked the link, and that action is a tracked conversion regardless of destination.
- Marsymars 8y agoI don't want my link-clicking actions to be tracked.
- brian_cloutier 8y agoThat's going to be very hard to fix. In order for your link-click to be resolved your computer has to send some packets and tell somebody that you want a piece of content. Somebody has to give you that content. Unless you're using tor (really, even if you're using tor), these are actions with physical manifestations which can be tracked.
- Marsymars 8y agoRight, I mean, I'm fine with Example co knowing that I opened example.com/somepage. I don't want a search engine to know whether I navigated there from a search result, and I don't want Example co to know where I navigated from or whether I typed the URL manually into my browser.