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.
Don’t hijack my URLs without my permission. Full stop.
Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store
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Re: Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store
#42Genuine question: what is the advantage to the end user by seeing non-AMP versions of webpages?
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#43The best thing about this is that AMP links totally break “open this page in the website’s native app” links, which I encounter frequently, presumably because the browser is on an AMP proxy domain and thus the iOS native app URL listener doesn’t work. It’s absolutely shocking that such a core flow is completely broken by default when you’re coming from Google search results. This app fixes this problem!
I would happily pay for an Open Source adblocker-style extension that intentionally breaks "do you want to download and install our app instead of using a perfectly reasonable web browser that you're in control of" pop-ups. If I don't already have the app installed, there's a reason for that. (In general, an adblocker is one of the most valuable things I have installed. I wish EasyList had a subscription option; I'd…
Not always the case. Sometimes I'm looking for something and come across a link to a reddit thread. I'd like to jump to the app easily. What I don't like, however, is how hard websites try to block you from accessing their website without opening the app first.
Re: Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store
#44You can accomplish this for free by simply switching your search engine to DuckDuckGo instead of Google.
I use Google because i) it displays stock price right on the search page. ii) it does match right on the search page. If DuckDuckGo did smarter results like this, I'd quit Google. Heck I'd even throw in a few bucks.
> I use Google because i) it displays stock price right on the search page.
So does DuckDuckGo; here's a screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/6nCNGZk
> ii) it does match right on the search page.
What do you mean by "match" here?
Re: Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store
#45The best thing about this is that AMP links totally break “open this page in the website’s native app” links, which I encounter frequently, presumably because the browser is on an AMP proxy domain and thus the iOS native app URL listener doesn’t work. It’s absolutely shocking that such a core flow is completely broken by default when you’re coming from Google search results. This app fixes this problem!
I would happily pay for an Open Source adblocker-style extension that intentionally breaks "do you want to download and install our app instead of using a perfectly reasonable web browser that you're in control of" pop-ups. If I don't already have the app installed, there's a reason for that. (In general, an adblocker is one of the most valuable things I have installed. I wish EasyList had a subscription option; I'd…
I just don't look at Reddit on mobile.
Re: Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would happily pay for an Open Source adblocker-style extension that intentionally breaks "do you want to download and install our app instead of using a perfectly reasonable web browser that you're in control of" pop-ups. If I don't already have the app installed, there's a reason for that. (In general, an adblocker is one of the most valuable things I have installed. I wish EasyList had a subscription option; I'd…
Not always the case. Sometimes I'm looking for something and come across a link to a reddit thread. I'd like to jump to the app easily. What I don't like, however, is how hard websites try to block you from accessing their website without opening the app first.
That's what I mean. If I have the app installed, I probably want to use it. If I don't have the app installed, I don't want the site trying to push me to install it; I just want the content in my browser tab.
And Reddit is indeed one of the worst offenders here.
Re: Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store
#47Firefox addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/amp2html/
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#48I’d pay a good deal of money to have early 2010 style Google back. Mainly: - No AMP - If I quote a string, you better be goddamn sure it’s present on the pages that you show me. - One ad per query. These days the organic results are after the page fold. This is unacceptable for something that’s supposed to be a search engine. —- The second one gets little attention but it’s infuriating to me. I mean, I’m explicitly t…
By verbatim I assume you mean quoting a string. Example query using that that you consider unsatisfactory?
Re: Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store
#49I’d pay a good deal of money to have early 2010 style Google back. Mainly: - No AMP - If I quote a string, you better be goddamn sure it’s present on the pages that you show me. - One ad per query. These days the organic results are after the page fold. This is unacceptable for something that’s supposed to be a search engine. —- The second one gets little attention but it’s infuriating to me. I mean, I’m explicitly t…
I think you are describing DDG.
Re: Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store
#50I’d pay a good deal of money to have early 2010 style Google back. Mainly: - No AMP - If I quote a string, you better be goddamn sure it’s present on the pages that you show me. - One ad per query. These days the organic results are after the page fold. This is unacceptable for something that’s supposed to be a search engine. —- The second one gets little attention but it’s infuriating to me. I mean, I’m explicitly t…
The second one gets little attention but it’s infuriating to me. I mean, I’m explicitly telling the engine what I want. If it’s not including it in the results, I might as well not even be here typing.
This is symptomatic of the fact that the users are not Google's customers. Google search is intended to direct you to the pages which are most profitable to the company. If you happen to find what you're looking for, so be it. If you don't find what you're looking for (because it's obscure and unprofitable) and instead get distracted by something Google would prefer you to see (because it's profitable) then all the better.
The fact that you're a power user puts you in the minority of (likely unprofitable) users anyway, so Google doesn't mind inconveniencing you. They seem to have a pretty fierce anti-power-user culture, as evidenced by all of the (power user/ hacker popular) products and features they've killed over the years.
We've got a lot of work to do if we're ever going to bring back the web we all remember from the old days.