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I was in the same boat until i switched to Firefox (even mobile) and installed the "redirect amp to html" addon. This has silenced my AMP anger. Edit: and swi

by ce4 6y ago

I was in the same boat until i switched to Firefox (even mobile) and installed the "redirect amp to html" addon. This has silenced my AMP anger. Edit: and switching from Google Search to DuckDuckGo. The addon only needs to take care of amp links i get sent via messenger/mail/etc

vaccinator 6y ago
That doesn't work too well with Firefox for Android, because Mozilla disabled most addons (there's like only 11 addons that are approved). I think it is possible to enable them in Firefox for Android Nightly[1] by creating an "add-on collection", which is kind of a pain and the first extension that I tried doesn't appear to work correctly (Redirector) and the browser just crashed after disabling the addon. Another way would be to stick with Fennec v68 from fdroid, but that is not such a great idea, but at least the extensions do work. 1. https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extension-support-in-firefox-for-android-nightly/ https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extensio...
- ce4 6y ago
  You're right, thats why i switched to an older version of Firefox' Fennec fork on F-Droid. Mozilla should really fix this
  - rapnie 6y ago
    Oh nice, I might try that out. The new FF Android has been such a bad experience for me from the start, and has a long way to go to catch up with the old version, imho.
    - vaccinator 6y ago
      I could not stick with the new Firefox for Android for more than 1 day... they didn't even implement something as simple as keyboard shortcuts (I understand that they have their priorities, but there are so many reasons why Fennix is worst then the previous engine Fennec, not sure why it was released in Alpha state as a finished product (did Google pay them to do this, IE: if you cripple your browser, I'll buy you a yacht)).
- kikokikokiko 6y ago
  Kiwi Browser is the way to go since Mozilla decided that it knows better than it's users which addons should they be able to use or not. It's basically Chromium with all it's addons available.
  - vaccinator 6y ago
    It probably calls home to Google, also.
bryanrasmussen 6y ago
having to do work to protect myself against bad things still makes me mad, because of the hating to do work thing.
- ce4 6y ago
  Sure I also still hate AMP but it doesnt constantly trigger the daily anger like it used to anymore
LeifCarrotson 6y ago
On the one hand, the addon has relieved my AMP issues; I no longer have any issues using AMP links that get sent to me. On the other hand, this solves the problem for me but not others, and I'm less likely to notice the problem and reply all or leave a comment with the non-AMP link. Also, it's available from the same developer as an addon for Chrome desktop; I suppose if you were just annoyed by the experience and don't care about de-Googling it works there too.
- ce4 6y ago
  There's only so much one can do. At work I had to even implement AMP at the request of an upper level, requested by marketing or the seo team. Everyone hated it but I can totally understand it: it made total business sense to appear in the Google rolodex search result

by ce4 6y ago

vaccinator 6y ago

That doesn't work too well with Firefox for Android, because Mozilla disabled most addons (there's like only 11 addons that are approved). I think it is possible to enable them in Firefox for Android Nightly[1] by creating an "add-on collection", which is kind of a pain and the first extension that I tried doesn't appear to work correctly (Redirector) and the browser just crashed after disabling the addon. Another way would be to stick with Fennec v68 from fdroid, but that is not such a great idea, but at least the extensions do work. 1. https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extension-support-in-firefox-for-android-nightly/ https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extensio...

ce4 6y ago
You're right, thats why i switched to an older version of Firefox' Fennec fork on F-Droid. Mozilla should really fix this
- rapnie 6y ago
  Oh nice, I might try that out. The new FF Android has been such a bad experience for me from the start, and has a long way to go to catch up with the old version, imho.
  - vaccinator 6y ago
    I could not stick with the new Firefox for Android for more than 1 day... they didn't even implement something as simple as keyboard shortcuts (I understand that they have their priorities, but there are so many reasons why Fennix is worst then the previous engine Fennec, not sure why it was released in Alpha state as a finished product (did Google pay them to do this, IE: if you cripple your browser, I'll buy you a yacht)).
kikokikokiko 6y ago
Kiwi Browser is the way to go since Mozilla decided that it knows better than it's users which addons should they be able to use or not. It's basically Chromium with all it's addons available.
- vaccinator 6y ago
  It probably calls home to Google, also.

bryanrasmussen 6y ago

having to do work to protect myself against bad things still makes me mad, because of the hating to do work thing.

ce4 6y ago
Sure I also still hate AMP but it doesnt constantly trigger the daily anger like it used to anymore

LeifCarrotson 6y ago

On the one hand, the addon has relieved my AMP issues; I no longer have any issues using AMP links that get sent to me. On the other hand, this solves the problem for me but not others, and I'm less likely to notice the problem and reply all or leave a comment with the non-AMP link. Also, it's available from the same developer as an addon for Chrome desktop; I suppose if you were just annoyed by the experience and don't care about de-Googling it works there too.

ce4 6y ago
There's only so much one can do. At work I had to even implement AMP at the request of an upper level, requested by marketing or the seo team. Everyone hated it but I can totally understand it: it made total business sense to appear in the Google rolodex search result