What’s u/NoGoogleAMPBot?

u/NoGoogleAMPBot looks for comments on Reddit that contain Google AMP links, figures out what their normal counterparts are, and replies with the normal links.

What's Google AMP?

Google AMP (short for Accelerated Mobile Pages) is a technology developed by Google which keeps the code for websites shorter, so that websites load more quickly. Optionally, Google can also cache the website on their servers, which further decreases loading times.

Why does this bot exist?

As many of us know, Google isn’t the greatest company when it comes to privacy. Because of this, many people use alternative services like DuckDuckGo or Ecosia. However, there’s no easy way ar

• Replying to posts (as of now, the bot can only reply to comments)
• A queue (to get around the rate limit, it'll make the bot miss less comments)
• Sending the reply via messages in case the bot is banned (as of now it's banned on 7 subreddits)
• Replying when the bot is tagged, in case it missed something
• Replying to messages

Possible features:

• Other de-googling replies, for example, linking to DuckDuckGo (or similar) when someone posts a link to a Google search