Comment on Europe wants easy default browser selection screens. Mozilla is already sounding the alarm on dirty tricks

• HKayn@dormi.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not only sponsored, but owned by Google.

  AMP links are basically Google repackaging other people’s articles. It prevents the actual owner from getting a pageview and let’s Google track you more invasively.

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  • HipPriest@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thanks for the info - was not aware of this before. Yet more wonderful business practices from the world of big tech...

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  • Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How is that legal?

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• Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Basically AMP is a copy of the website content hosted by Google for a “speedier load” but there are privacy, longevity, and general decentralization concerns with the “protocol.”

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  • HipPriest@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thanks for this - this is something that has passed me by. So essentially plagarising another website's content for traffic plus the usual Google shenanigans? Nice

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    • Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I mean, the website opts into it (it can’t be done with any website), but otherwise yes.

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      • HipPriest@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Obviously - I guess I'm more surprised at The Register in that case. They're a very savvy industry magazine. Presumably they get a hefty wad.

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