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AMP results are annoying enough on mobile that I switched my default search engine to duckduckgo on my phone.
But if that's what it takes to get the real web, so be it.
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I have thought the same for year and finally just switched to iOS.
Yeah, but then you have another vendor lock in, not to mention that apple products are expensive for me, I don't have an US salary.
> The Pixel 4 is $799 and the Pixel 3a is $399 (although it may be on sale right now depending on your region). The iPhone 11 is $699 and the iPhone SE (2nd generation) is $399. Both provide additional discounts if you trade in your current phone (and since iPhones have a lot more resale value, you can get much more for your trade-in). Google provides three years of security updates, starting from the time that the phone is released. Apple provides four or five years of security (and feature!) updates. You can get the same amount of usable life out of a brand-new Pixel as a one- or two-year-old iPhone, which puts the per-year price strongly in Apple's favor. Other Android devices, like those made by Samsung, are usually even more expensive and have fewer years of guaranteed security updates. Apple even backports extremely high-severity security patches and major bug fixes (like the GPS rollover patch) to devices that would be considered "obsolete" by Android manufacturers.
So the iPhone might be a higher upfront cost, but it's a significantly lower per-year cost, especially if you get last year's model or the SE.
My unpopular opinion. I love AMP. Mobile internet for me ( maybe on worse devices ), was becoming a non-thing for me. AMP let's me check the news again. My opinion might be because I don't have much understanding of it as a framework, but from a non power user perspective, I've found the UX to be amazing.
AMP in part made me switch to Apple News - it's buggy and doesn't respect browser history (major usability failure on Google's part).
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 mean if AMP effectively disguises the original URL could it not be used for phishing?
To be clear I know very little about AMP and if this is the case
Regardless it just adds complexity and makes it that much harder to teach people what is an acceptable URL when it comes to email links etc...
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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.
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?
Why can't they just give a simple setting which lets users disable AMP? This is the most annoying about being forced to use AMP.
Who's being forced to use AMP? The user? Remember, the user is the product .