iOS 11 Safari will automatically strip AMP links from shared URLs

Re:iOS 11 Safari will automatically strip AMP links from sha... by e1ven on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @07:38PM (#15086220)

A significant portion of the time (more than 1/2) AMP URLs fail to load, forcing me to "Request Desktop Site" in order to load it.

When they do load, they fuckify the URL, so I can't copy/paste it normally. I know I can go in through the page's menus and get the real URL, but it makes it harder for no reason.

I consider the URL part of the page's UI, and commonly manually edit it. This makes it harder.

So far as I can see, there is no advantage to AMP pages, versus a fast and simple HTML page, with no external resource requests.

Sites can serve that themselves, rather than using Google.

In short, it breaks features I use, and doesn't provide advantages.

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Re:iOS 11 Safari will automatically strip AMP links from sha... by BoorishBears on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @09:48PM (#15086993)

This is why I hate AMP.

People who like it can't seem to understand that it has a crappy user experience for some people and always assume you don't like it for "philosophical reasons".

I really don't care about AMP from that POV, I just wish it was a secondary link instead of the stealth replacement of where I wanted to go with a page that usually doesn't load and messes up my back button.

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Re:iOS 11 Safari will automatically strip AMP links from sha... by protomyth on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @11:09PM (#15087336)

I’m with you. I expect in the coming days I will have to switch some of our elder’s search engines to DuckDuckGo to avoid problems. I just hate technology that changes the user experience in a broken way. Browsers are supposed to act in a certain way. Don’t break that. Breaking UI is why we had a hate on for Win 8. It really annoyed people with the changes.

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