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1. forteller (forteller@octodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2017 18:02:47 UTC forteller

   #Google is trying to eat the web, one service at a time. Now they are even eating external news websites with #AMP.

   This is a really disturbing development. Please resist, don't visit AMP pages if you can avoid it.

   https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/19/open_source_insider_google_amp_bad_bad_bad/ #googleamp

   • Stephen Michael Kellat repeated this.
   • Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2017 18:07:35 UTC Annah

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     @forteller We should make a plugin that automatically blocks AMP pages.
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   • forteller (forteller@octodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2017 18:27:08 UTC forteller

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     • Annah

     @maiyannah OMG, I found this and it works on the Guardian and FT pages I tested. Thanks for the kick, should've checked for this before I tooted :P https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/amp2html/

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   • forteller (forteller@octodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2017 18:31:00 UTC forteller

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     Want to resist the easy way? Install this Firefox extension and get redirected from AMP to HTML automatically! https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/amp2html/

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