Assuming this is a web extension, you'll only be living amp-free in safari. (pretty sure iOS doesnt allow hijacking another domain's universal links?)
Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store
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Re: Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store
#62There's already the Redirect AMP to HTML extension, I use it for both Firefox & Chrome
- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/amp2html/ - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/redirect-amp-to-ht...
Re: Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store
#63What'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.
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.
Re: Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store
#64The 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…
Fair enough. I wish you had that option as well. But when I already have and use the apps, it’s pretty awful for Google to break links that certainly should open in those apps.
Re: Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store
#65I’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 remember when you could put a '+' in front of a keyword and it would be in the results ("+keyword").
Then google+ hijacked that and never gave it back.
Re: Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
http://www.startpage.com
Startpage is no good; sold out to an ad company
Re: Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store
#67You can accomplish this for free by simply switching your search engine to DuckDuckGo instead of Google.
If you still want to use Google, you can request the desktop site too. No amp links.
I don't know how much longer that will continue to work though. Many sites ignore it and show the mobile version anyway.
Re: Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store
#68#1 article on the YC News front page.
#1 most popular "tools" app in the App Store.
Google: Take the hint, please.
Re: Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store
#69I’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.
I happen to use both bing and DDG occasionally and the results are plain bad so I end up using Google anyway.
I should try the opposite though: when Google SERP is useless, try others.
Re: Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store
#70The 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 block ads at the DNS level. Aside from 2-3 legitimate websites that broke as a result of this (because they use some Salesforce thing as a part of their site or similar), almost every unsubscribe link I get is now broken. I really wish there was some plug-in that would unroll those links to their final form since that’s usually fine but passes through 2-3 bukkshit redirects before it gets there.