<story><title>Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image search results</title><url>https://twitter.com/zenexer/status/1265633022709301249</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lightswitch05</author><text>I couldn&amp;#x27;t agree more that AMP is terrible. I do everything I can to avoid it. Using DuckDuckGo certainly helps, but I will still occasionally stumble on an AMP site. I&amp;#x27;ve created a hosts block list to help me avoid AMP as much as possible. It currently has 3,569 unique domains (works great with a PiHole!). I&amp;#x27;m really concerned about Chrome&amp;#x27;s &amp;#x27;signed exchanges&amp;#x27; where they can fake the URL completely. I hope Firefox will never support it.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.github.developerdan.com&amp;#x2F;hosts&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.github.developerdan.com&amp;#x2F;hosts&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>TechBro8615</author><text>How does anyone think this is a good idea? It should be clear which news site I am reading when I&amp;#x27;m reading an article. Otherwise, how do I know which bias to apply? On iOS, the title bar says &amp;quot;google.com&amp;quot; whether I&amp;#x27;m reading an article from CNN.com or WashingtonExaminer.com.&lt;p&gt;Of all the anti-competitive actions google has taken around search results, AMP is by far the worst. I hope they get smacked down for it in the upcoming anti-trust lawsuit. And kudos to Apple for refusing to change the URL bar like Google does on Android.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hjek</author><text>Even better than blocking AMP is just redirecting to the proper page[0].&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&amp;#x2F;en-US&amp;#x2F;firefox&amp;#x2F;addon&amp;#x2F;amp2html&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&amp;#x2F;en-US&amp;#x2F;firefox&amp;#x2F;addon&amp;#x2F;amp2html&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image search results</title><url>https://twitter.com/zenexer/status/1265633022709301249</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lightswitch05</author><text>I couldn&amp;#x27;t agree more that AMP is terrible. I do everything I can to avoid it. Using DuckDuckGo certainly helps, but I will still occasionally stumble on an AMP site. I&amp;#x27;ve created a hosts block list to help me avoid AMP as much as possible. It currently has 3,569 unique domains (works great with a PiHole!). I&amp;#x27;m really concerned about Chrome&amp;#x27;s &amp;#x27;signed exchanges&amp;#x27; where they can fake the URL completely. I hope Firefox will never support it.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.github.developerdan.com&amp;#x2F;hosts&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.github.developerdan.com&amp;#x2F;hosts&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>TechBro8615</author><text>How does anyone think this is a good idea? It should be clear which news site I am reading when I&amp;#x27;m reading an article. Otherwise, how do I know which bias to apply? On iOS, the title bar says &amp;quot;google.com&amp;quot; whether I&amp;#x27;m reading an article from CNN.com or WashingtonExaminer.com.&lt;p&gt;Of all the anti-competitive actions google has taken around search results, AMP is by far the worst. I hope they get smacked down for it in the upcoming anti-trust lawsuit. And kudos to Apple for refusing to change the URL bar like Google does on Android.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>&amp;gt; I&amp;#x27;m really concerned about Chrome&amp;#x27;s &amp;#x27;signed exchanges&amp;#x27; where they can fake the URL completely.&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#x27;re not faking the URL; a signed exchange contains data that can only have come from the original site. It&amp;#x27;s a secure way of handling caching&amp;#x2F;CDNs&amp;#x2F;etc, and it&amp;#x27;ll be a net improvement for security that allows sites to put less trust in third-party servers and scripts.</text></comment>