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It's illegal to do that in the EU, so probably only affects non-EU terretories.
A/B testing is illegal in the EU?
Absolutely not.
Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image search results
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Re: Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image search results
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For reportedly being there to accelerate the web, AMP pages remain consistently slower and less reliable than the original websites for me.
With amp I basically do "find the page, edit url to remove amp, load again" dance. It is definitely not faster.
Why edit url? For non images, the original URL is in the page content.
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#33AMP is the worst. It breaks the web and should just die.
Tell me about it. Our company moved to it and its been horrible with any third party application or marketing pixel. My boss tried to warn VPs of AMP being a nuclear option. Instead of fixing the website they rather put a bandaid over it.
> Our company moved to it and its been horrible with any third party application or marketing pixel.
Isn't that part of the point though? 3rd party marketing and tracking pixels are NOT things that improve the experience or performance for the visitor.
Re: Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image search results
#34How does anyone think this is a good idea? It should be clear which news site I am reading when I'm reading an article. Otherwise, how do I know which bias to apply? On iOS, the title bar says "google.com" whether I'm reading an article from CNN.com or WashingtonExaminer.com.
Of all the anti-competitive actions google has taken around search results, AMP is by far the worst. I hope they get smacked down for it in the upcoming anti-trust lawsuit. And kudos to Apple for refusing to change the URL bar like Google does on Android.
Re: Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image search results
#35This is pretty much what we've been saying would happen since the day AMP was fire presented to the public.
I really hope this AMP thing never becomes anything mainstream, it's an atrocious attempt at monopolizing the internet as a whole.
Re: Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image search results
#36Why can't they just give a simple setting which lets users disable AMP? This is the most annoying about being forced to use AMP.
There are browser add-ons that do exactly this for you.
Re: Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image search results
#37I switched all my default search to DuckDuckGo a few months ago because of stuff like this. No regrets here. If you haven't tried it recently, give it a shot. It's gotten tons better in the past few years. Once you get used to it, it's as good as Google search.
Re: Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image search results
#38I always chuckle to myself when people are quick to attack amazon/facebook as being the real evil companies....while google has been slowly taking over the internet these past 10 years.
They're all companies. They'll take as much as they can. It's just how companies are. Don't make the mistake of anthropomorphizing them.
Re: Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image search results
#39AMP really has to go away, its a MITM attack on the internet. Google discontinues so many services, why is AMP not one of them yet?
because it's a useful MITM attack on the internet
Re: Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image search results
#40AMP results are annoying enough on mobile that I switched my default search engine to duckduckgo on my phone.
I did the same, I don't plan on going back to Google as my search engine.