Overview
Amplosion is a specialized Safari Web Extension designed to solve the structural fragmentation caused by Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP). Developed by Christian Selig, the architect behind the Apollo for Reddit app, Amplosion operates as a high-performance URL interceptor. It leverages the Safari Web Extensions API to detect AMP-based URL patterns in real-time and performs a seamless redirect to the original, canonical web version before the page even begins to render in the DOM. This technical approach not only restores the native UI/UX of the publisher's website but also bypasses Google's proxy tracking mechanisms associated with AMP. In the 2026 landscape, as web standards shift towards privacy-first protocols, Amplosion remains a critical tool for users demanding content integrity. It is built on a privacy-respecting architecture where all URL processing occurs locally on the device, ensuring that browsing history never leaves the user's environment. The extension's logic is largely open-source, allowing for community auditing and contributing to its status as a gold-standard utility for the Apple ecosystem (iOS, iPadOS, and macOS).