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What's so bad about AMP? If anything, it makes many news sites more "readable", less junk and distraction. Walled garden? Yes, but so is Apple ecosystem, which

by xvilka 5y ago

What's so bad about AMP? If anything, it makes many news sites more "readable", less junk and distraction. Walled garden? Yes, but so is Apple ecosystem, which is this extension for.

wyager 5y ago
Don’t hijack my URLs without my permission. Full stop.
thatswrong0 5y ago
Google should let me fucking disable it without having to rely on a safari extension, because it makes many websites less usable / more broken in many ways. My mobile speeds are fast enough.
valine 5y ago
It’s glitchy, takes up screen real estate, it’s hyper sensitive to horizontal swipes and will sometimes load an unrelated pages, and instantly forgets your cookies and logins (absolutely awful for sites like Reddit where I want to stay logged in). That’s my list anyway.
tambourine_man 5y ago
It stupidly and needlessly reinvents scrolling. By doing so, it completely breaks lots of standard and core browser behaviors, such as: - can’t tap menu bar to scroll back to the very top of the page - can’t find anything on the page because it breaks built in search (unless you’re lucky enough to have the string visible on the viewfinder ) - old man argument, I’ll admit, but I want the site I’m visiting to be the domain I’m seeing in the address bar. This is the Web, not some Google sub domain. - scrolling is janky on older iPhones. Oh, and messes your cookies so you’re never logged in. You need an extra tap to redirect you to the site you actually pay for. And probably a whole lot more I’m not remembering.
q-rews 5y ago
I hate it as much as everyone else, but last time I stripped AMP I got a useless paywalled adridden website so I ended up just sharing the AMP URL
DantesKite 5y ago
For me, it's just frustrating and breaks some functionality on web pages. I wouldn't mind if it made things better or at least, not worse.

by xvilka 5y ago

What's so bad about AMP? If anything, it makes many news sites more "readable", less junk and distraction. Walled garden? Yes, but so is Apple ecosystem, which is this extension for.

wyager 5y ago

Don’t hijack my URLs without my permission. Full stop.

thatswrong0 5y ago

Google should let me fucking disable it without having to rely on a safari extension, because it makes many websites less usable / more broken in many ways. My mobile speeds are fast enough.

valine 5y ago

It’s glitchy, takes up screen real estate, it’s hyper sensitive to horizontal swipes and will sometimes load an unrelated pages, and instantly forgets your cookies and logins (absolutely awful for sites like Reddit where I want to stay logged in). That’s my list anyway.

tambourine_man 5y ago

It stupidly and needlessly reinvents scrolling. By doing so, it completely breaks lots of standard and core browser behaviors, such as: - can’t tap menu bar to scroll back to the very top of the page - can’t find anything on the page because it breaks built in search (unless you’re lucky enough to have the string visible on the viewfinder ) - old man argument, I’ll admit, but I want the site I’m visiting to be the domain I’m seeing in the address bar. This is the Web, not some Google sub domain. - scrolling is janky on older iPhones. Oh, and messes your cookies so you’re never logged in. You need an extra tap to redirect you to the site you actually pay for. And probably a whole lot more I’m not remembering.

q-rews 5y ago

I hate it as much as everyone else, but last time I stripped AMP I got a useless paywalled adridden website so I ended up just sharing the AMP URL

DantesKite 5y ago

For me, it's just frustrating and breaks some functionality on web pages. I wouldn't mind if it made things better or at least, not worse.