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> I like AMP over publishers' own formats...

Back in the day, we called them websites.

And I still visit them! POLITICO, The Information and others have me at their sites every day. Other publications, e.g. the Washington Post or Wall Street Journal have me Googling for AMP versions.

Note that my main search engine is Duck Duck Go. For me, Google's doing something meaningfully helpful with AMP.

I use ddg for search. I like it but it is a hassle to have to toggle safe mode every time. I wish they had a url/alternative to toggle this literally every browser load.

I think

https://duckduckgo.com/?kp=-1&q=%s

does what you wish.

Are you looking for "!safeoff"?

This appears to work. The "settings" tab appears to say that safesearch is on but this overrides it. Not sure if for the session or just a oneoff but nice to know and gets the job done.

Going to check out some other "bangs" now im aware.

Meanwhile, if you find AMP doesn't fit your needs, you're stuck.... dumping google.

I spent this weekend writing a google proxy to inject the actual urls into the results. Ultimately I would have switched to bing, or maybe yandex.

Use DuckDuckGo with the !g bang. It will use encrypted.google.com and bypass AMP pages.

I end up just using DDG's results most of the time though since they're pretty good.

If you’re really “googling” for AMP versions I recommend you should get the “AMP Validator[1]” extension. Aside from validating, it parses the <meta> tags on current website and lets you click-through to go to AMP version.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/amp-validator/nmof...

install firefox and disable scripts. you will be surprised at how many "websites" are still available to you.

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