“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server”

Re:“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server” by raverbashing on Thursday January 23, 2020 @03:11AM (#22125786)

AMP sucks, but it seems it might be a good idea for some of these request-heavy websites

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Re:“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server” by Sohcahtoa82 on Thursday January 23, 2020 @02:37PM (#22130983)

You can make fast, light-weight websites without AMP. In fact, it's easier to make a fast, light-weight website than to make the modern request-heavy monstrosities you see today.

Just stop using 20 trackers and 10 ad networks, and stop loading so many parts of your page asynchronously. A news article should require zero JavaScript.

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Re:“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server” by raverbashing on Friday January 24, 2020 @03:21AM (#22136366)

Of course you can

But tell that to the hundred-tracking-cookies-js-bloat website with the ridiculous "We care about your privacy" popup

If AMP cuts that crap from the website, I'll go to the AMP version, thank you.

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Re:“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server” by Sohcahtoa82 on Friday January 24, 2020 @01:13PM (#22140912)

Agreed.

To users, AMP is a godsend that greatly enhances the user experience.

I will happily use AMP pages. Web developers brought this on themselves with ridiculous amounts of JS code.

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Re:“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server” by enumjorge on Thursday January 23, 2020 @07:36AM (#22126989)

There are ways to incentivize sites to reduce bloat without asking them to use some Google-specific format.

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Re:“This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server” by ViViDboarder on Thursday January 23, 2020 @12:19PM (#22129450)

HTML is really all you need to reduce requests though. You don’t need AMP. Obligatory motherfuckingwebsite.com and bestmotherfuckingwebsite.com links.

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