#Google is trying to eat the web, one service at a time. Now they are even eating external news websites with #AMP.
This is a really disturbing development. Please resist, don't visit AMP pages if you can avoid it.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/19/open_source_insider_google_amp_bad_bad_bad/ #googleamp
@forteller I'm working on a privacy-oriented browser, and AMP is a huge concern for me. I don't have a way to find a page's real URL without loading the AMP page, which means telling Google what articles you're reading.
@elfio @forteller Aside from the article that @forteller mentioned, here's Google's shilling page: https://www.ampproject.org/
Person who talks about removing AMP from their site: https://www.alexkras.com/i-decided-to-disable-amp-on-my-site/
The main advantage to it is that Google boosts your search rankings if you use it. Supposedly because it makes your site faster, but it usually won't. The real way to make a site faster is to load less javascript.
@dhasenan How does the automatic redirection extension get it then?
@forteller I don't know and will look into it. I only said that I personally don't have a way.
@dhasenan @forteller
Wow, I wasn't aware of this new evil maneuver. I have to read more about it. Any suggestion to begin with?