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That is how they know which results are good and which send people straight back to the results page. And, it's going away thanks to the new "ping" HTML attribute.
Yikes; I hadn't heard about this. Does uBlock origin stop this? I certainly don't want my browser doing it.
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DuckDuckGo users are going to be a minority for a long time.
Minority or not, if you use DDG, you will not see an AMP page. What do you want, to search for stuff or to feel that you're supporting the winning team or something?
It's a fact. There's no quick path to victory until mass tech community adoption rubs off onto regular folks; it hasn't hit that first milestone yet.
It won't win in the short term, which is where AMP adoption is
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No, why would it be? All those people working for Facebook, Google all the other companies abusing our privacy are making a ton of money and we're all paying the costs. Why should we tolerate that? They are worthy of contempt.
There are people on this very website who have vehemently defended software that decides whether some person needs to be killed with a missile from a drone. That have defended and encouraged companies like Google to help military kill foreigners, countrymen and countrywomen of many people visiting this site. And AMP, a restricted web standard, is that's "worth of contempt"? Please, please, take a step back and think…
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Link prefetching and rendering isn't unique to AMP - it was even added by W3C to be part of the HTML5 standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_prefetching#Prefetching_i... Even Internet Explorer will prefetch and render pages.
Yes, but if you use that feature, the prefetched sites will fingerprint you and track you.