Privacy-focused browser Brave takes aim at Google, AMP (accelerated mobile pages) framework

By Tim Hardwick, MacRumors

Privacy-focused browser Brave has announced a new feature that bypasses pages rendered with Google’s AMP framework and automatically redirects users to the original website.

AMP, or Accelerated Mobile Pages, is Google’s non-standard subset of HTML that renders page content to make it look like its coming from the original publisher’s website, when in fact it’s being served from Google’s servers.

Google claims that AMP improves website performance and simplifies the browsing experience, but critics say the framework furthers the monopolization of the web and is harmful to privacy, since it gives Google even more information on which pages users visit and how they interact with them.

In a blog post announcing the AMP-bypassing feature, called De-AMP, Brave explained how it would “protect” users from AMP in several ways.

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