Spyke
lemmy.world

Hate to be that person, but AMP links are not good. It's yet another one of Google's schemes to control the web.

As for the article: feels like everyone with half a brain knew this was going to happen and unfortunately that's 48% of eligible voters at the time.

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Ramblerreply
lemm.ee

Would you please explain your reference to amp and google?

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towerfulreply
programming.dev

Google invented AMP.
It had specifications for a webpage to conform to.
In return, Google would serve a cached copy and rank your page higher - ie a bigger audience. So publishers had to play along.

This article has some overviews on it.

https://www.theregister.com/2017/05/19/open_source_insider_google_amp_bad_bad_bad/

AMP developers produced something that is bad for the open web ecosystem because it destroys three sacrosanct elements of the web: the URL, the open web standard of HTML, and the decentralisation of the web.

Whilst AMP is now open source, it's still Google.
I don't know that any other search engines recognise AMP.
I don't think I've ever seen an "Always AMP" browser extension (tho I have seen many "de-amp" extensions).

Personally , I will support the publishers by linking/sharing/viewing the actual article link instead of the AMP link.

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Apologies, I didn't know this, I just thought it was served on a subdomain for some random reason and it didn't matter. I'll ensure my links are "clean" in future 🙂

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An interesting article - thanks for the link. I'm not exactly sure what options I have now though: I don't use Google search, I don't use their browser (or any of their software) - am I good to go?

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No need for feeling that - covers both bases an' all. So all good, thanks for taking the time.

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feddit.uk

No one could possibly have predicted this.

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Project Fear! Project Fear!!! Pro ject. Fear. And so here we are.

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It’s almost as if when you have a massive block of countries with standardised rules it’s easier for businesses to do their activities even if the rules are imperfect

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