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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 sandworm101 »

This reminds me of Jeremy Clarkson's speeches about race version of street cars: Paying more for less car. Ten thousand dollars more for the same car but without air conditioning. A few thousand more for one without rear seats. Eventually we will we be paying an infinite amount of money for a car that doesn't exist.

Three dollars to disable this OS feature. Another three to not use passwords. A few more for bypassing another feature tomorrow. One day we will be paying for an OS that doesn't actually do anything. But isn't that exactly what happens every time I buy a laptop? I am paying for an OS that I am going to bypass/dump/replace the moment I open the box!

Re: ‎Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store

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Post by Eric_WVGG »

KindOne wrote: post #26

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

Haha. Not only did this individual hate AMP enough to make this extension, so did Joseph Duffy https://twitter.com/joe_duffy/status/1409146065912225794?s=2..., and so did I https://twitter.com/eric_wvgg/status/1440688602321621000?s=2...

Re: ‎Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store

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Post by koolba »

sandworm101 wrote: post #31

This reminds me of Jeremy Clarkson's speeches about race version of street cars: Paying more for less car. Ten thousand dollars more for the same car but without air conditioning. A few thousand more for one without rear seats. Eventually we will we be paying an infinite amount of money for a car that doesn't exist. Three dollars to disable this OS feature. Another three to not use passwords. A few more for bypassing…

It’s not an OS features. AMP links are a Google product that are incredibly annoying. The OS feature being leveraged here is adding a URL scheme handler that routes those annoying AMP links to their actual destination.

Re: ‎Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store

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Post by rscoots »

nabaraz wrote: post #28
RKearney wrote: post #4

You 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.

http://www.startpage.com

Re: ‎Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store

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Post by aikinai »

sandworm101 wrote: post #31

This reminds me of Jeremy Clarkson's speeches about race version of street cars: Paying more for less car. Ten thousand dollars more for the same car but without air conditioning. A few thousand more for one without rear seats. Eventually we will we be paying an infinite amount of money for a car that doesn't exist. Three dollars to disable this OS feature. Another three to not use passwords. A few more for bypassing…

The OS (iOS) and the service you’re paying to modify (Google) are very different, so this analogy doesn’t make any sense.

If Apple charged you to not use ScreenTime or something, sure, but that’s not the case.

Re: ‎Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store

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Post by tshaddox »

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!

Re: ‎Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store

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Post by tambourine_man »

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.

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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. Just show me whatever it thinks I want based on everything it knows about me. And no, unfortunately verbatim doesn’t always help.

Re: ‎Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links on the App Store

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Post by JoshTriplett »

tshaddox wrote: post #36

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 happily pay to help support its maintenance.)

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