The privacy-focused browser Brave is now rolling out a new feature they call “De-AMP” that lets Brave users get around Google’s AMP sites and instead visit a publisher’s site directly.
AMP stands for “Accelerated Mobile Pages” and is a project for coding newspaper pages so they can be quickly displayed on smartphones. AMP pages are managed on Google’s servers but have a design that makes them look like they come from the original publisher’s site. For example, if you search for a news site via Google and click on one of the results, you will first receive an article via Google.com that looks like it comes from the original site.
Google itself argues that this results in better performance for web pages. Brave argues because AMP is primarily harmful because it damages users’ privacy, is bad for security, monopolizes the web, and, in fact, degrades performance.
Brave’s De-AMP feature is currently available via the Nightly and Beta versions of Brave. It will soon also be released for desktop and Android with version 1.38, followed by iOS shortly after.
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