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‎Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store

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Re: ‎Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store

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Post by chairmanwow1 »

tambourine_man wrote: post #37

I’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…

Check out https://neeva.com/

Paid search engine that I switched to last month. Best feature is no ads. You can hook up your private data silos (Notion, Slack, Google, Dropbox etc) and all results appear directly in regular search.

I don’t ever see myself going back to whatever the fuck Google has morphed into over the years.

Re: ‎Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store

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Post by julianlam »

q-rews wrote: post #72
bjornstar wrote: post #62

There'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...

The point here is that this can be used on iPhone, so there was not already something there.

... and in typical Apple fashion, it costs money to get it.

Re: ‎Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store

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Post by gumby »

anyfactor wrote: post #95
void_mint wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

DDG, but actually returning search results.

This. Everyone talks up DDG but it is literally one of the crappiest search engine out there. You never get what you want immediately. I think Bing and Searx are better options compared to DDG.

I thought DDG was bing, just with some privacy

Re: ‎Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store

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Post by schleck8 »

_tom_ wrote: post #7
RKearney wrote: post #4

You can accomplish this for free by simply switching your search engine to DuckDuckGo instead of Google.

Google is way better at some classes of searches, still.

Use whoogle then

https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search

Re: ‎Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store

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Post by gumby »

matttb wrote: post #56
savanaly wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

By verbatim I assume you mean quoting a string. Example query using that that you consider unsatisfactory?

After you do a search there's a 'tools' button. Clicking it gives you a dropdown with the option to change from 'all results' to 'verbatim'. There's also the 'Advanced Search' https://www.google.com/advanced_search where even if you enter a word in quotes in the 'this exact word or phrase' box you still get results without your query. I don't have an example query, but it happens all the time. I put a query in quotes…

Having to click around to get a normal search is clearly an anti pattern. Forcing someone to reach for thé mouse rather than simply typing is an insult.

Re: ‎Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store

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Post by gumby »

throwaway13337 wrote: post #6

I quite like these safari extensions. They almost make up for the forced safari monopoly on iOS (but not really). I use dark reader on chrome for computers. They also have a safari extension that surprisingly works just as well. https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader https://darkreader.org/safari/ I'm concerned, though, whether these extensions work the same as chrome extensions. Can they view and potentially uploa…

In the case of safari you could use the built-in reader mode. I have it enabled by default.

Google of course will never include such a thing

Re: ‎Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store

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Post by schleck8 »

q-rews wrote: post #74
ghostly_s wrote: post #61

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?)

Correct. Some extensions still offer tools via the share dropdown though. This extension could add a “Open without AMP” option in there.

You could just use https://www.amputatorbot.com in this case. The extension's selling point is convenience

Re: ‎Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store

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Post by ro_bit »

IgorPartola wrote: post #70
JoshTriplett wrote: post #38

Earlier 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…

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.

I use http://wheregoes.com to manually follow any unsubscribe links that my hostfile blocks.

Re: ‎Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store

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Post by labster »

gregman wrote: post #49
tambourine_man wrote: post #37

I’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.

DuckDuckGo essentially ignores negated terms. Try searching for `49ers -football` and you get a front page full of football links and nothing about the gold rush.

Re: ‎Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store

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Post by tambourine_man »

moralestapia wrote: post #91
tambourine_man wrote: post #37

I’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…

>If I quote a string, you better be goddamn sure it’s present on the pages that you show me. I'd pay significant money for this (20-30 USD/month), plus very few search operators that actually make sense (i.e. and, or, not). But yeah, we got AI instead ... (pure crap IMO)

I’ve been craving for a “grep for the web” for decades.
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