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Re: Google AMP Issue: Links to visit the site currently not working

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Post by luckylion »

raverbashing wrote: post #9

Oh look another "completely innocent mistake" by Google

You're getting downvoted, presumably because "they wouldn't be evil", but I find the alternative just as problematic: a superpower tech company with a budget larger than many nation states hiring the best and the brightest and paying them unbelievably well so they do their best.. breaking fundamental features in widely used software and not realizing it themselves (they wouldn't ship the update otherwise, I believe). What's happening there?

And the follow up thought: "move fast and break things" suggests that we should think twice before relying on these companies for anything close to critical infrastructure.

Re: Google AMP Issue: Links to visit the site currently not working

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Post by krn »

tobr wrote: post #20
krn wrote: post #19

The AMP links to visit the original site are working fine for me on Brave (based on Chromium) on Android: clicking on the "(i)" icon shows the URL. The easiest way to to get rid of all AMP pages in Google search results is to disable javascript on www.google.com/*.

Doesn’t work on iPhone Safari for me, I get the same translucent gray overlay regardless of where I tap.

Could it be an iOS/Safari-specific bug?

Re: Google AMP Issue: Links to visit the site currently not working

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Post by ehnto »

piecu wrote: post #5
SiempreViernes wrote: post #2

I don't know anything about AMP, so I'm genuinely amazed that one could create bugs in it that just downright break hyper references. I though links was a pretty important part of HTML, and so people took care to ensure they work?

Not for google. They want to kill links.

What do they intend to replace them with?

Re: Google AMP Issue: Links to visit the site currently not working

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Post by luckylion »

krn wrote: post #22
tobr wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doesn’t work on iPhone Safari for me, I get the same translucent gray overlay regardless of where I tap.

Could it be an iOS/Safari-specific bug?

The tweet says it's Chrome on iOS.

Re: Google AMP Issue: Links to visit the site currently not working

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Post by ehnto »

justicz wrote: post #3

Yes! I’ve been having this issue for days but assumed it was just me. It is particularly frustrating for sites like Reddit where the AMP version is too aggressively cached and misses most of the recent comments.

It feels like a solution to a problem no one was having, and now it's breaking the internet for people who never asked to use it.

Re: Google AMP Issue: Links to visit the site currently not working

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Post by firasd »

When AMP was introduced I assumed the actual content would be loaded from the canonical URL anyway. This whole in-between caching layer G introduced is very weird.

Also, I think what AMP was pitted against--Facebook instant articles--no longer exists, or at least doesn't particularly matter (now that FB is several pivots beyond the whole 'newsfeed is full of articles' stage).

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