Brave’s new De-AMP feature lets you easily bypass AMP pages

After launching a crypto wallet back in November last year, the popular Chromium-based Brave browser is rolling out another useful feature. The new feature, called De-AMP, allows Brave users to bypass pages viewed using Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) framework and take them directly to the original website.

In a blog post on the matter, Brave notes that “AMP damages users’ privacy, security, and Internet experience, and just as badly, AMP helps Google increase its monopoly and control over the direction of the web.” The new De-AMP feature helps users to easily bypass these issues by taking them directly to the original website. Additional notes in the blog post:

“Brave will protect users from AMP in a number of ways. Where possible, De-AMP will rewrite links and URLs to completely prevent users from visiting AMP pages. In cases where this is not possible, Brave will monitor while pages are fetched and redirect users away from AMP pages. before rendering the page, which prevents AMP/Google code from loading and executing.”

De-AMP is currently available in Brave’s Nightly and Beta versions. The feature will be enabled by default when it is rolled out to the stable channel with the upcoming v1.38 update for desktop and Android. This feature will also make its way to Brave for iOS, but the developers haven’t given a specific release timeline. Users who want to continue visiting AMP versions will have the option to disable De-AMP by heading to brave://settings/shields.

It’s worth noting that Twitter also updated its AMP guidelines last year and phased out mobile AMP loading. But despite strong lobbying against AMP, Google is said to be pursuing the framework. As mentioned in the Brave blog post, the . file “The effort isn’t officially called AMP 2.0, but the goals are the same: to allow more of the web to be served from Google’s servers, and in ways that give users less control over how they interact with that content, with less understanding of where that content comes from.”


source: brave

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