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For reportedly being there to accelerate the web, AMP pages remain consistently slower and less reliable than the original websites for me.
I'm still against AMP on a conceptual ground, but it is so much faster and more reliable than traditional page loading on my phone. Pages can't have megabytes of JavaScript and huge images. It's served by Google's fast CDN instead of some far-away server.
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After they took away peoples' ability to MITM their own stuff by forcing HTTPS everywhere under the guise of privacy.
Not everyone joined the https party. The additional overhead on sites isn't justified for sites you don't even log into.
For anyone on the fence about using DuckDuckGo instead of Google, if you don't find what you're looking for, it's easy to revert to a Google search by typing "!google" with your query. DDG has improved a lot with time, so I almost never fall back to Google anymore. For some technical searches that DDG can't find, I find codeseek.com is better than both Google and DDG
For anyone on the fence about using DuckDuckGo instead of Google, if you don't find what you're looking for, it's easy to revert to a Google search by typing "!google" with your query. DDG has improved a lot with time, so I almost never fall back to Google anymore. For some technical searches that DDG can't find, I find codeseek.com is better than both Google and DDG
I switched all my default search to DuckDuckGo a few months ago because of stuff like this. No regrets here. If you haven't tried it recently, give it a shot. It's gotten tons better in the past few years. Once you get used to it, it's as good as Google search.
But Google search is noticeably much, much better. They've got us over a barrel.
AMP really has to go away, its a MITM attack on the internet. Google discontinues so many services, why is AMP not one of them yet?
The worst thing I've seen recently is amp URLs for reddit threads. It's one bad thing (new reddit UI) wrapped in a worse thing (AMP), and getting back to classic reddit takes a lot of gymnastics. The stupid part is that the amp page is indistinguishable from the (new) reddit page (the AMP page comes complete with the "download our app" popup). So I don't see how it's providing any speed/experience benefit.
How does anyone think this is a good idea? It should be clear which news site I am reading when I'm reading an article. Otherwise, how do I know which bias to apply? On iOS, the title bar says "google.com" whether I'm reading an article from CNN.com or WashingtonExaminer.com. Of all the anti-competitive actions google has taken around search results, AMP is by far the worst. I hope they get smacked down for it in the…
I couldn't agree more that AMP is terrible. I do everything I can to avoid it. Using DuckDuckGo certainly helps, but I will still occasionally stumble on an AMP site. I've created a hosts block list to help me avoid AMP as much as possible. It currently has 3,569 unique domains (works great with a PiHole!). I'm really concerned about Chrome's 'signed exchanges' where they can fake the URL completely. I hope Firefox w…
Google scraped and stole all the traffic for covid19 since 3 months just like it did for other topics
How to fight back against Google AMP https://markosaric.com/google-amp/
And the original thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21712733
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Use firefox or brave. I solved this problem. I'm only waiting for a proper alternative to Android, I'm so tired of google and its swallow way of doing things...
I have thought the same for year and finally just switched to iOS.