Please Make Google AMP Optional

#1

Post by tambourine_man » Sat, Jun 10, 2017, 9:50 PM UTC

Please Make Google AMP Optional
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Re: Please Make Google AMP Optional

#2

Post by JeremyBanks » Sat, Jun 10, 2017, 10:01 PM UTC

Google search doesn't really have many options like this, and I'd be shocked if they added this one.

But given the URL format, it should be trivial for a browser extensions to rewrite links or requests from AMP pages to the original. I bet it already exists.

Re: Please Make Google AMP Optional

#3

Post by omot » Sat, Jun 10, 2017, 10:03 PM UTC

I never really understood why google amp is bad. Can anyone explain the reason why people think its ethically bad?

Re: Please Make Google AMP Optional

#4

Post by limeblack » Sat, Jun 10, 2017, 10:05 PM UTC

JeremyBanks wrote: post #2

Google search doesn't really have many options like this, and I'd be shocked if they added this one. But given the URL format, it should be trivial for a browser extensions to rewrite links or requests from AMP pages to the original. I bet it already exists.

And how do you plan to do this when no mobile browsers suppport extensions?

Re: Please Make Google AMP Optional

#5

Post by zakk » Sat, Jun 10, 2017, 10:06 PM UTC

omot wrote: post #3

I never really understood why google amp is bad. Can anyone explain the reason why people think its ethically bad?

Not really an expert, but I don't see any good in strengthening Google's monoculture.

Re: Please Make Google AMP Optional

#6

Post by epistasis » Sat, Jun 10, 2017, 10:06 PM UTC

I'm trying to imagine the uproar if Apple had done AMP instead of Google. Somehow AMP has some staunch defenders, but everything, and I mean everything about how it's been approached has felt very anti-web and pro-Google. The overall concept may be sound, but the implementation, and the inability to escape it, has significantly hurt my opinion of Google. In fact, I no longer use Google's search because of it.

Re: Please Make Google AMP Optional

#7

Post by rak00n » Sat, Jun 10, 2017, 10:08 PM UTC

zakk wrote: post #5

omot wrote: post #3

I never really understood why google amp is bad. Can anyone explain the reason why people think its ethically bad?

Not really an expert, but I don't see any good in strengthening Google's monoculture.

If that's the argument everyone should boycott all Google products.

Re: Please Make Google AMP Optional

#8

Post by limeblack » Sat, Jun 10, 2017, 10:08 PM UTC

So another article was posted a couple weeks ago about AMP. One advantage I have seen is that you can get around intranet blocking sites if they support AMP. Besides obviously speed this is the only advantage I have found.

Re: Please Make Google AMP Optional

#9

Post by krrrh » Sat, Jun 10, 2017, 10:08 PM UTC

limeblack wrote: post #4

JeremyBanks wrote: post #2

Google search doesn't really have many options like this, and I'd be shocked if they added this one. But given the URL format, it should be trivial for a browser extensions to rewrite links or requests from AMP pages to the original. I bet it already exists.

And how do you plan to do this when no mobile browsers suppport extensions?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/

Re: Please Make Google AMP Optional

#10

Post by muglug » Sat, Jun 10, 2017, 10:09 PM UTC

omot wrote: post #3

I never really understood why google amp is bad. Can anyone explain the reason why people think its ethically bad?

Worth reading the HN posts linked in the article. IMO it's a band-aid for a larger problem - a problem that Google is now incentivised not to address through less hegemonic means.