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by rsync 2219 days ago
"The worst thing I've seen recently is amp URLs for reddit threads."

How can I see this very specific example ? I would like to understand exactly what this looks like ...

I am not a reddit user and I don't consume much web content on a phone, which is using Safari on an iPhone ...

Would I need to download google chrome onto my iphone, then do a google search for a reddit thread, then click on that search result ? Or would I see this result in Safari as well ?

Genuinely curious as I would like to recreate this specific result ...

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You just search for and find any reddit thread, and it is absolutely just as shittastic in any browser (I am using Safari on iOS).

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/gadgets/commen...

This page is simultaneously encased by AMP, has multiple ways reddit is trying to get me to install an app that isn't going to help me right now as I am hopping between websites--I am going to glance at reddit for ten seconds and then a stackoverflow question and then a bugzilla issue and then a quora thread... the last thing I want right now is to end up in some app--but it also doesn't show me all the comments and is asking me to click through to get them... it used to be I clicked a search result and it showed me the reddit thread, with all the comments and without an app: I liked that :(.

It's something you will routinely see in subreddits. Someone makes a comment wanting to link this thread, and it will say "just have a read of https://google.com/amp/news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23322730....

The madenning part is you will see these links when using Firefox or Safari and you'll see them on a desktop. It is of course, not just Reddit thing. I've seen LinkedIn shares look like this.