Chromium-based browser maker Courageous has launched a brand new function known as De-AMP which permits customers to bypass Google’s Accelerated Cellular Pages framework (AMP) to permit them to as an alternative go to web sites instantly.
Courageous was scathing in its evaluation of Google’s AMP framework, claiming in a weblog submit launched on Tuesday that the framework is “dangerous to privateness” and “helps Google additional monopolize and management the course of the online”.
“An moral net have to be a user-first net, the place customers are answerable for their shopping, and are conscious of who they’re speaking with. AMP (together with Google’s upcoming, precise identify nonetheless to come back, ‘AMP 2.0’) is incompatible with a user-first Internet. De-AMP provides to the lengthy listing of Courageous options that put customers first on the Internet,” Courageous mentioned within the submit.
“The place attainable, De-AMP will rewrite hyperlinks and URLs to forestall customers from visiting AMP pages altogether. And in circumstances the place that’s not attainable, Courageous will watch as pages are being fetched and redirect customers away from AMP pages earlier than the web page is even rendered, stopping AMP/Google code from being loaded and executed.”
Courageous introduced that the De-AMP function is now obtainable in its Nightly and Beta variations and can quickly be enabled within the upcoming 1.38 Desktop and Android variations earlier than being launched on iOS.
Google claims on its web site that the aim of AMP is to boost web site efficiency to be able to create “user-first experiences”.
This isn’t the primary time the privateness browser maker has gone after Google, with Courageous beforehand accusing the search engine large of breaching one of many EU Normal Knowledge Safety Regulation’s ideas surrounding consent for knowledge assortment, while a coalition of 10 US states filed a lawsuit towards Google in 2020 alleging the corporate used the AMP framework to throttle commercials.
“Google’s inner paperwork belie the general public picture of brainy Google engineers having enjoyable at their sunny Mountain View campus whereas making an attempt to make the world a greater place. Moderately, to cement its dominance throughout on-line show markets, Google has repeatedly and openly violated antitrust and client safety legal guidelines,” the coalition mentioned in its authorized grievance [PDF] on the time.