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The author of this app made a post on Reddit a few days ago. https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/pvvi83/googles_amp_p... The program is opensource. https://github.com/christianselig/Amplosion
It's source available but not open source. The license part in the repo README explains that.
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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.
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I just send this kind of stuff to spam because I never subscribe to any mail newsletter.
Same. Do automatically opt-in newsletters really turn a profit? I would think that for something like a newsletter, explicitly opting in would end up being more profitable, since if you’re sending an email with eg sendgrid it’s not free. Can someone shed some light on the economics of newsletter spam?
The 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…
While not an extension, the DuckDuckGo browser app on iOS has exactly this feature. Maybe Firefox should consider building it in too!
The 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!
Is AMP really that bad? It seems to circumvent a lot of paywalls for me and seems to just be a subset of HTML, roughly.
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It's source available but not open source. The license part in the repo README explains that.
The author claims its open source but then explicitly omits a license to the repo, so they are misusing the term.
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Yeah, I have done the same. DDG is pretty decent! ... and, I totally did not know about the !g/!gi, thanks for that!!
Check out bangs: https://duckduckgo.com/bang You usually don’t even need to remember them, for most somewhat popular sites you can just guess the bang, and it searches there.
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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?
> match
meant to say math.
The author of this app made a post on Reddit a few days ago. https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/pvvi83/googles_amp_p... The program is opensource. https://github.com/christianselig/Amplosion
Most recent public fork I found is now mirrored here: https://github.com/3nprob/Amplosion
> Safari extensions require your permission to run, so in the interest of transparency I wanted to make the app completely open source.
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> License: This is open source in the interest of transparency, and I hope this doesn't need to be said but please don't take this as an opportunity to reupload the code and call it your own. This is the equivalent to the GitHub "No License", so you're more than welcome to inspect the code and audit it, but you do not have permission to repurpose it as your own.
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It’s open source. You can even build it yourself it you want to
It’s not open source, it lacks a license entirely. And, therefore, nobody is allowed to build it themselves.
But sure, I’ll cave. What would be a better term for this?