You can't disable Google AMP
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You can't disable Google AMP
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Re: You can't disable Google AMP
#2This AMP "feature" caused me to switch my entire search engine on mobile. In other words, you have to disable it by not using Google.
Re: You can't disable Google AMP
#3My SO is a non-tech user and she hates the AMP bar so much that's fixed and covers significant screen space (on iphone 6) and it reverts to google search page when she clicks X button because she thought it'll hide that bar.
Re: You can't disable Google AMP
#4To be clear, this is referring to the client side--that is, from the perspective of mobile web searchers, you can't ask Google to hide AMP results from the results page.
To my knowledge, publishers still have to opt into participating in Google AMP, and I assume they can opt out? That was my fear in reading the headline--that publisher participation in AMP is irrevocable, which would be bad.
Re: You can't disable Google AMP
#5My SO is a non-tech user and she hates the AMP bar so much that's fixed and covers significant screen space (on iphone 6) and it reverts to google search page when she clicks X button because she thought it'll hide that bar.
Going by this ticket, it seems it was not supposed to be a fixed element.
Re: You can't disable Google AMP
#6AMP is absolutely infuriating. I constantly share links via iOS extensions, for example Slack, and AMP gives me this ridiculous google.com link.
I've thought about building an adblock style blocking mechanism for these links. But it seems I'd end up blocking an increasingly large percentage of the search results.
Re: You can't disable Google AMP
#7This AMP "feature" caused me to switch my entire search engine on mobile. In other words, you have to disable it by not using Google.
Great idea. To which search engine did you switch?
Re: You can't disable Google AMP
#8AMP is absolutely infuriating. I constantly share links via iOS extensions, for example Slack, and AMP gives me this ridiculous google.com link. I've thought about building an adblock style blocking mechanism for these links. But it seems I'd end up blocking an increasingly large percentage of the search results.
Instead of blocking them you could automatically redirect them to the non-AMP version, which is linked with rel="canonical".
Re: You can't disable Google AMP
#9This AMP "feature" caused me to switch my entire search engine on mobile. In other words, you have to disable it by not using Google.
Great idea. To which search engine did you switch?
I use DuckDuckGo [1] instead of Google. The search results are nearly identical and the bangs [2] are very handy.
Re: You can't disable Google AMP
#10Like the other commenters here, I really disliked amp for a variety of reason such as the bar on top and the inability to easily link the main version of the page. However, I'be come to feel that we've brought this on ourselves as Web developers by making every website incredibly bloated and only possible to use on high speed connections. I've spent the past month in thailand on a much slower connection and the only sites I can reliably use currently are text sites like hacker news and amp pages. I can have a site like reddit even take 30-40 seconds to load and more complicated sites like cnn will load part of the page and then silently fail on me.
AMP is not a great solution, but it is at least _a_ solution, when the industry was not taking steps to fix the problem themselves