{"id":33739,"date":"2021-09-24T17:16:33","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T21:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=33739"},"modified":"2022-07-14T15:05:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T19:05:53","slug":"ios-safari-extension-amplosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/24\/ios-safari-extension-amplosion\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS Safari Extension: Amplosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amplosion.app\">Christian Selig<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/amplosion.app\"><p>Amplosion automatically redirects from AMP links to normal websites.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A great deal of the time the website loads weirdly or incompletely, potentially missing parts or acting differently than you&rsquo;re used to<\/li>\n<li>AMP links add another opportunity for AMP providers to track you<\/li>\n<li>The URLs often become really gross for sharing with friends, with a bunch of weird extra stuff shoved into them, or sometimes not even from the correct website<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2021\/09\/21\/here-are-the-best-new-safari-extensions-to-download-for-ios-15-and-ipados-15\/\">Parker Ortolani<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2021\/09\/21\/here-are-the-best-new-safari-extensions-to-download-for-ios-15-and-ipados-15\/\"><p>The app also lets you keep track of how many times you&rsquo;ve visited an AMP link and how many times you&rsquo;ve used Amplosion to avoid one. Amplosion is priced at just $1.99 and if you hate AMP as much as I do it&rsquo;s well worth it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"ios-safari-extension-amplosion-update-2021-09-29\">Update (2021-09-29): <a href=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/amplosion\/\">Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/amplosion\/\"><p>Do not miss Selig&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristianSelig\/status\/1439989198925205508\">announcement video<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=28678684\">Hacker News<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/christianselig\/Amplosion\">Christian Selig<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/github.com\/christianselig\/Amplosion\"><p>Safari extensions require your permission to run, so in the interest of transparency I wanted to make the app completely open source. Amplosion&rsquo;s Privacy Policy already states that it&rsquo;s completely private (everything is handled locally, on-device) but why trust my words when you can go through the code itself? My intention is for this to serve as an extra layer of validation that Amplosion is a privacy-first app, and seeks simply to make your web browsing experience more pleasant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mistydemeo\/status\/1442691377746223111\">Misty<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mistydemeo\/status\/1442691377746223111\"><p>The fact that so many people hate AMP the $3 iOS plugin to get rid of it is #1 in the app store is kind of an incredible sign of what a bad technology it is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/amplosion-number-one\/\">Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/amplosion-number-one\/\"><p>More notable, I think, is that it is the third most popular paid app of <em>any kind<\/em> in the Canadian App Store as I write this, sitting just behind Procreate Pocket and well ahead of Facetune, Wolfram Alpha, and at least four moose hunting apps.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/viticci\/status\/1442613467542863873\">Federico Viticci<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/viticci\/status\/1442613467542863873\">\n<p>AMP is a user-hostile, useless technology that has harmed the mobile web and publishers who fall for it<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/robruenes\/status\/1442871022705729545\">Rob Ruenes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/robruenes\/status\/1442871022705729545\">\n<p>current mood: you worked on the initial AMP launch and then bought this app &#x1F60C;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnwilander\/status\/1442649234684084224\">John Wilander<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnwilander\/status\/1442649234684084224\">\n<p>As I said, the Google AMP cache is the cross-site tracking stunt of the decade.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dialtone_\/status\/1442850170945867789\">Valentino Volonghi<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dialtone_\/status\/1442850170945867789\"><p>[If] you click <a href=\"https:\/\/apple.news\/AWDBS0OvkSpSvRxWSvplGfg\">this link<\/a> from macOS, it will open Apple News and ask for subscription, but if you open from iOS Twitter client it will open up people.com on the news. I would argue this is much worse than what AMP does as well<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>end of amp<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/09\/stopthenews-1-0\/\">StopTheNews 1.0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Selig: Amplosion automatically redirects from AMP links to normal websites. 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