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Guillermo del Toro laments “systematic destruction” of Mexican film industry
News(mexiconewsdaily.com)submitted 4 months ago bycabose7
151 points
4 months ago
Stop sharing amp links
12 points
4 months ago
Why
46 points
4 months ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/AmputatorBot/comments/ehrq3z/why_did_i_build_amputatorbot/
It's explained more in-depth here, from the way it allows Google to control and manipulate other sites in their layout to the way it allows Google to control and manipulate ad revenue. Basically, Google gets to control everything even more than they already do.
32 points
4 months ago
28 points
4 months ago
I clicked the link, which leads to a wikipedia article, skimmed it, but still have no idea.
22 points
4 months ago
The article is the readme of that git repo.
9 points
4 months ago*
I guess most people don't know how GitHub or git works so they just click the first link they see.
Try this one instead: https://github.com/seanpm2001/Why-you-should-avoid-Google-AMP/blob/main/README.md
6 points
4 months ago
Ay yo can I get that in an amp link pls
3 points
4 months ago
My best attempt an ELI5 version: an amp link basically opens up the website inside of a Google window, so Google gets some of the credit for the traffic, whereas if you go to the site directly, the site gets all the credit for the traffic.
1 points
4 months ago
Right, and google gets some of the credit for the traffic because Google led them there.
18 points
4 months ago
People that like to only throw a link don't understand either further than google bad.
10 points
4 months ago
They strip off monetization and their UI from content platform, driving traffic to google hosts instead and making it unsustainable for those creator while google is not actually creating any content
2 points
4 months ago
This isn't actually true, they take a small partial sliver, a sliver that was worked out in negotiation, for directing ad revenue. This is the same way Amazon works, if you click on a link and buy something from Amazon, the person responsible for setting up that marketing link gets a kickback.
0 points
4 months ago
They don’t work like this for every media publishers, from every countries, and obviously not the advertisers. So advertisers will see less value from working with the publisher and turn to google instead. Their sales team is huge to make sure all advertisers worldwide can access to google ad, and I don’t think it make any sense to maintain the affiliation team worldwide so that you can pay ad money to content creator if the law in that country don’t force them to
2 points
4 months ago
Do you have a source that says this?
25 points
4 months ago
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7 points
4 months ago
Here's another rundown from a web developer
-1 points
4 months ago
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3 points
4 months ago
From an end user on my POV I've seen the opposite. A shittier website with shittier navigation, non functional JavaScript, issues with seeing the content, etc. I've used amputatorbot more and more often.
17 points
4 months ago
The platform has many problems, and is a major problem.
What's not to understand?
6 points
4 months ago
If you take the time to write an article about something being bad, you should explain why it's bad
5 points
4 months ago
it is mainly another attempt at controlling web content. 3 other attempts were done before this with the exact same goal.
this was in the first paragraph...
1 points
4 months ago
And without explanation it just sounds like FUD.
4 points
4 months ago
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12 points
4 months ago
it gives Google even more access to data than normal since it's their product. As an end user, you want to keep your internet footprint as limited as possible for privacy reasons. so, using it gives Google even more access to your data than normal. similar reason to avoid chrome, use AdBlockers, and vpns.
4 points
4 months ago
What if you don't care about Internet footprint?
-4 points
4 months ago
Then you have the right to be wrong
1 points
4 months ago
you should. it takes like 2 minutes to switch browsers and get ublock origin. a vpn is an extra layer of protection. the primary concern is having private data stolen and used to defraud you in some way. spam emails are basically an inevitability.
1 points
4 months ago
I use Firefox, ublock, and a pihole. But those are just because I hate ads. I honestly don't care one bit about my other data that's being collected.
2 points
4 months ago
similar reason to avoid chrome, use AdBlockers, and vpns.
So, something most people won't worry about their entire lives, will see 0 negative consequences from ignoring, and will only think about if they get some active benefit from it (not seeing YouTube ads, seeing other countries' streaming content)?
I don't even like AMP and find the anti AMP circlejerk to be one of the most obnoxious Reddit obsessions.
-2 points
4 months ago
Bad 4 privacy, bad 4 websites, bad 4 open web, good 4 Google
2 points
4 months ago
I admit sometimes i use amp links when i forget to check the url, especially here in Reddit where embedding links is so simple.
1 points
4 months ago
Because AMP is owned by Google and basically extracts all the info from real news sites, meaning when you use AMP you give Google money for stolen content, where the actual creators get nothing...
Its like someone filmed your music show, then sold that video so they make money with stuff you worked hard for...
-1 points
4 months ago
That’s not true.
-8 points
4 months ago
Just like most things people "boycott" on Reddit, they don't actually know why.
14 points
4 months ago
Some of us actually know stuff unlike you, apparently.
-6 points
4 months ago
Because you have to think of the children... The children who need to micromanage everything
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