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Kill Google AMP before it kills the web (2017)
- ravenstine 7y agoI swear to never implement AMP pages for any of my employers.
- LegitShady 7y agoI just want a way to permanently opt out.
- coldpie 7y agohttps://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/amp2html/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/amp2html/
- abbadadda 7y agoNice! Excellent link... Making the move to Firefox better. uBlock origin is a must. Anything else you'd recommend?
- a5aAqU 7y agoFirefox on mobile. uBlock Origin on mobile.
- 0xADD1E 7y agoMy personal basics are Adnauseaum (uBlock origin based, makes exceptions for non-tracking ads, and clicks all tracking ones to pollute data), Decentraleyes, HTTPS Everywhere, and multi-touch zoom if I'm on a 2-in-1
- dzamie 7y agoNoScript breaks some sites but makes many run faster. Everything defaults to blocked, but I've marked some known ad servers and Google/Facebook trackers as specifically blocked so I don't accidentally unblock them. Also, setting up custom searches is very nice: when editing a bookmark, attach a keyword to it and put "%s" in the URL. If you type the keyword first, the rest of the search string will replace the %s. I use it for the usual Wikipedia search, but also I've set "@r tf2" to take me directly to the subreddit called tf2, and @i immediately throws the query at DDG's image search.
- timbit42 7y ago* Multi-Account Containers * Temporary Containers (works with Multi-Account Containers) * Cookie AutoDelete
- jacinabox 7y agoBasically the whole web has no single point of failure, with the exception of DNS, and even that is decentralized. So what do you do with that?-- obviously introduce a single point of failure in the form of a private service.
- shadowgovt 7y agoIf / when that service fails, won't people just do whatever they did when they didn't have that service?
- MrGilbert 7y agoLike pasting the domain into googles searchbar, as a lot of my older relatives (50+) did/do? I'm afraid a lot of people don't even know how to get from an "amp" page to the "original" webpage.
- shadowgovt 7y agoLike doing the search that got them to the amp page in the first place in another search engine.
- vorpalhex 7y ago> By Scott Gilbertson 19 May 2017 at 08:25 Please add in a (2017) to indicate this article is quite dated at this point
- psalminen 7y agoAlso, see previous discussion[0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14384187 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14384187
- geddy 7y agoIn an attempt to do my part in killing AMP, I just disabled it on my Wordpress-hosted site. If you've got a Wordpress blog hosted on their servers, you can go to Settings > Performance and disable AMP completely.
- asplake 7y agoDid that myself a while back. Annoyed it was on by default in the first place! Why would they do that?
- DebtDeflation 7y agoDon't worry, AMP is just an interim step on the path to Google's ultimate vision, which is to answer all search queries directly with a fact, passage, or knowledge graph datasheet, using information it extracted from your content and without providing any url at all.
- jdsv 7y agoIs there a more recently updated analysis on why AMP is/isn't bad for the internet? Using my Google-fu to look for criticisms of AMP seems to yield little to no results