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Maybe this deserves its own Ask HN (but probably not):

What automatic things do people do to get rid of amp links to see “the original”? In an ideal world I wouldn’t even load the amp. I’m especially interested in solutions for Safari on iOS and Firefox on OS X (will not ever write macOS willingly).

Along the same thread, it used to be that when I clicked an Apple News link on my laptop it’d open in a browser and redirect to the original. Now Apple has “helpfully” provided my with an OS X version of News—a browser without any of the plugins I like. How can I intercept the URL handling and send it to Firefox rather than News?

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I'd ask the opposite instead, what is it that leads people to AMP over "the original"? I have never been directed to an AMP page except in case someone shares AMP urls. And I use a lot of browsers and search engines, just not chrome or google.

For me Google news on mobile(firefox)loads every page as a AMP page. Very annoying.

Google is quite vicious in displaying primarily AMP pages on mobile search results. There are times my inquiry only returns AMP pages, essentially requiring me to use another search engine or use the web as Google demands.

What leads people to it? Google. They intentionally kick you out of search results if you don't do AMP. The end user has very little choice in the subject.

I mostly get AMPed when someone sends me a link.

There's a Firefox add-on for that: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/amp2html/

This is good, and what I will use.

It's snappy---the redirect happens before the page renders / any tracking has a chance to kick in.

HOWEVER It's not perfect---2 of the 4 first examples I tried failed and required manual intervention. I opened an issue https://github.com/da2x/amp2html/issues/23

> will not ever write macOS willingly

And yet you did.

News app -> preferences -> Open web links in News might help

> And yet you did.

It was unwilling.

When I navigate to

    OS X 11.0.1 -> News -> Preferences

I am presented with only two tick boxes:

    [ ] Restrict stories in Today
        (... description ...)
    
    [ ] Restrict stories with explicit content
        (... description ...)

OS Ten Eleven?

Safari: If you long press a link (or 3D Touch, RIP), and "Open in New Tab", it bypasses AMP; simply selecting "Open" does not however.

Force touch the link on iOS. Or the force touch equivalent in newer models.

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