De-AMP: Cutting out Google and enhancing privacy

Re:De-AMP: Cutting out Google and enhancing privacy by go_prodev on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @02:15PM (#31086733)

I generally trust the Brave folks, but have reservations about rewriting URLs becoming a new tool in their toolbox.

DDG sounds like a promising alternative.

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Re:De-AMP: Cutting out Google and enhancing privacy by spicybright on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @02:31PM (#31087000)

I'm sure it just changes the URL bar so you can see what happens.

Regardless, it's already in their tool box because they make the browser.

They could be re-writing urls and not showing you, if they wanted to. And as long as no one notices, you can keep doing it.

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Re:De-AMP: Cutting out Google and enhancing privacy by go_prodev on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @02:41PM (#31087155)

Good point. It also sounds better to build it in than having a browser extension for it.

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Re:De-AMP: Cutting out Google and enhancing privacy by mastazi on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @02:51PM (#31087279)

> DDG sounds like a promising alternative

Unfortunately, switching to a different search engine does not prevent you from ever stepping onto AMP again. For example all links in the mobile version of Twitter used to be AMP until recently: https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/19/22791002/twitter-amp-ios...

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Re:De-AMP: Cutting out Google and enhancing privacy by nocman on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @04:30PM (#31088633)

I suspect go_prodev is referring to the DDG app ( https://duckduckgo.com/app ) and not just the search engine.

I only recently became aware that the app existed, so I don't know how/if it deals with all things AMP-based.

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